License plate and dash lights on with key on, but lheadlight switch in the off position Options

[HalfMoon]

I started my car tonight and noticed despite the headlight switch being fully in the off position, my dash lights are on and my license plate light is .
Odd. Never saw that before. Headlight switch I imagine....
Thoughts?
David
Addedum-and saw what I thought was a wisp of smoke come from under my dash at the windshield....perhaps my imagination?

[HalfMoon]

Sigh. Well it has been a long long road but my wipers are finally functioning again but not what you may expect.
After many weeks of trouble shooting with a fellow member who is also an electrical engineer (thanks Valy!) I had to give up on the 924 switch from CIP1.
It took quite awhile to figure out that the switch from them was mis wired (a manufacturing error). Two switches I might add. Both had pin 2 and 3 reversed. That said, I was able to get the wipers to function as long as the switch was not installed in the column. As soon as I installed the switch it would blow fuse 8 EVERY TIME and we couldn't figure out why to save our lives. At the end of the day, I rebuilt my old stock switch. It works fine now (but of course it has no trigger for the electric washer pump I had previously installed.) I'm gonna go with a momentary switch installed on the dash somewhere and call it a day. Belive me when I say the 924 switch mod isn't a "plug and play" job, at least not the "economy" switch from CIP1. Perhaps a genuine Porsche 924 switch would work but it's NLA so you'd have to get one aftermarket and my experience thusfar with aftermarket is they're for shit so don't bother.
Oddly enough, my tach light and license plate light are still coming on inappropriately but I could care less now, lol. Having wipers working is a big thing at this point and I'll bask in the simple pleasure of having them working again.
As an aside, rebuilding a stock wiper switch is far easier than you might think. I took a buncha pix while I did mine. There's a very common thing that happens to them that makes em not work and it's quite easy to fix. Tell me you want to see the re-build proccess as a thread and I'll post it.