Sounds like you have some battery acid crud on the connections. Sometimes they can get so bad that it will act like there's no battery because there isn't, it's basically not connected. I'd run a battery terminal cleaner over the posts and on the cable ends, put a little dielectiric grease on the posts, and put the little felt washers on before I bolted the cables back on. Every Quest we've had has had problems with crud building up on the battery cables, and a good cleaning & greasing will fix it, but the felt washers almost stop the buildup.
HTH
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