Headlight Switch problems of the 1998 Ford Crown Victoria

My crown vic has 43759 miles on it. While driving down the highway at night the lights turned off (approximately 1. 5 seconds)-flashed on-flashed off. I took the bright lights off & it quit turning off. I kept the brights off the rest of that trip but could still smell an plastic burning smell in the car when the lights were on. I took my car to the Ford dealer about 12-4-2003 and they told me it was a light control module--then they told me it was back-ordered nationally and would be 2 weeks before it came in. I called 12-26-2003 & it is still on back order.

While driving at nightheadlights suddenly went out without warning. Contacted independent mechanic. Was informed copper switch had overheated and was cause of problem.