I have a 95 Avenger and I had the same problem. Used to take me about 10 tries to get the thing going when it was cold. Turned out that when I took the car to the dealer and told them what was going on, they immediately diagnosed it and said that I needed an ECU firmware upgrade and that they've known about the problem for forever but never made it a recall because it only occurs in some of the 2.5L V6's. Hopefully they give you a better price because the upgrade set me back $350.