My neighbor, who has a 2000 3.8L 2-door Pontiac Grand Prix SE, emailed me this morning that she couldn't remove the key after placing the car in Park. She said it has happened a couple of times over the past 5 days and asked for my help.

I began searching the internet and came upon this forum. What an excellent bunch of information here! This evening, when she got home, try as I might, the key never got stuck. I told her I've read that many people have experienced this same problem and that I could install the manual override feature that SteelBiker described above since this is such an intermittent problem. She agreed. I just completed the modification and it works perfect.

Thanks to all (especially SteelBiker),
creakndale