I was taking another look at the black knob on the shifter that holds the chrome push release knob and a couple of broken black pieces of plastic from the inside of the black knob fell out on my lap. Hopefully this is the problem and not something I did this morning in my investigating. I actually had ordered new parts from majestic honda this morning because it was cheap and I was rolling the dice thinking after 137,000 miles this black plastic knob was in a no win battle with the metal portion of the shifter. Maybe I got lucky. Thanks again! Will post later with results.