In all honesty I think he probably has only one problem that is causing both issues.
Just need to run it down.

 

I haven't solved it yet but I am pretty confident the it's the socket for the ignition relay. the problem has happened twice since my last post. both times there was 12v at the ignition fuse but not to the ignition relay. I have identified the wire from the ignition fuse to pole 86 of the relay socket. I have not checked it for continuity but I will. I have the next 2 days off so I will mess with the bike some more.if I pull the relay out of the socket a 1/4" or so it starts to work. I have a little thin file in my toolbox at work. I'm gonna bring it home and clean out the sockets for both relays and put some dielectric grease on the relay poles. hopefully that solves it.

 

It's not a bad idea to replace the relay napa sells those for about eight bucks, they are called micro relays.
I like spray electrical contact cleaner. And like you say pack the socket with dielectric grease. At this age of you bike you need to do all of your conectors.
Especilly the one between the run switch and the starter relay.

 

Did you ever figure out the problem?

 

It's not grounding inside the starter, you could take the side cover of starter off ad try to clean it up with a wire brush, but it'll happen again replace the starter you won't have a problem

 

As long as you have power to the green wire plugged into the starter use a test light to make sure when the start button is pressed it should light up