Spark/ignition issues?

Well I bought a new box. It's just a plain aftermarket one from AutoZone. Chrome though not black.

I plugged it in, and I got spark back. However it seems the spark is more orange now than blue. But I'm back where I was....the engine almost wants to start up but does not. I got spark for sure at coil wire, but I'm still thinking it's off when firing to the cylinders. Unless it takes longer for one cylinder to repeat fire and I'm not cranking long enough, but I don't think so.

I checked the ohms on the pickup coil in the distributor, it read out 285. I read somewhere that the range should be 150-900 so that seems okay.

Cleaned up all contact points on the rotor and cap, although they weren't bad. Well, the rotor had some black buildup on the tip, but it's clean now. Hasn't seemed to make a difference in the problem anyway.

Because it's still the same problem, I'm thinking my orange box was fine and somehow from crank after crank it got zapped or something. I had spark with it when this problem first occured, then it had no spark at all. Now back to spark but no firing up.......argh.