97 Jetta Starting Problem

Sorry if something similar has already been posted. My 97 2.0 Jetta started steaming and smelling strongly of coolent, so I parked it and checked and could not find a leak, however, now it won't start, it just cranks over and over, etc. When I left it for a day, it started, but would bog down and stall if you touched the gas, and now it has a slightly "gas-like" smell. After all of the money I have put into this thing lately, is it too much to ask that it be something simple?

Thanks
Shawn

I'd start by having the codes read.

Ummm...I had similar problems, and it ended up being that a simple fuse was not fully plugged in. So check all fuses, bus and block.