Ok, friends, you are cracking me up, but you are ALL winners in my estimation, for caring enough to give me some damn good input. First thing out of his mouth was, "this is not code!" Seems I've heard that before, LOL. He was flummoxed by the BS they put me through, in order to get an electrician ok'd to come. This is not the official write-up, that he will supply the office with, along with his bill, but he wrote some basic things down for me, since I know the office will not share the official one with me. 1) Definitely found a mis-wired split, in the outlet that services the disposal and dishwasher. 2) 66 volts were present. He used a term, "voltage starved." Neutral wire was "not present." That's what he wrote, but I think he said it was wired to something else than what it should have been in there? I'm still a bit confused about that. 3) He rewired the outlet, correcting the problem. 4) It is safe to use my disposal and dishwasher, but the appliances may not have the life span they would have had, had they had the proper voltage. I am running/testing my appliances post visit. I set the dishwasher on the quickest cycle, 48 minutes, and it completed the full cycle with no problems, and no overheating of the disposal. YAY! The disposal worked fine. The only thing I forgot to do was momentarily flip that disposal switch on/off while the dishwasher was running, just to make sure it didn't shut off the dishwasher control panel, which it did previously, before the fix. I do not have the means to become a supporting member of this forum, though it is EXACTLY the sort of thing I would support! I have been saving the bit of birthday money that my son gave me in July, and I am donating it to the site, if you'll direct me to the right page or wherever I can do that. So many thanks to all of you! Now, I'll watch to see what you have to say, or ask me.
They're very good tears! 
