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I posted in this in another post and i will post it here:

"My 99 contour died this same way last June. It was definatly an alternator issue. The alternator is in a bad location and tends to get salt in it. My alternator was highly carroded on the contacts and eventually started to burn up do to the fact there was arching from the lack of pick up points. The car restarted after jumping and ran fine, but after running tests from the ford service manual I foudn out it was the alternator. Mine first started going with the air bag light blinking, then the abs, then collant, then the tach went and last the speedo, minute later just stalled and I was stuck on teh side of the road."

Looks like you need a new alt. I did mine myself so only cost me 175 for alt. My friend just got a new alt in his Cougar which has the same engine and the same problem I had. Cost him 350 for parts and labor.

-Greg