I suspected a bad voltage regulator and went through the procedures in the sticky for charging system testing. It says that if you have any voltage between ground and any of the three pins on the regulator's stator connector that the regulator is bad. Mine has 12 volts DC on all three pins. I replaced it with a new regulator and it has the same 12 VDC on all the pins. Replacing the regulator fixed the original problem but the sticky is from 2005 and must not be correct for newer regulators or I have a weird system.

Does anyone know for sure?