Hello,
First, thanks to everyone who helped with my arc/short question. I have a pretty good idea of what happen now, but still am going to have an electrician come out next week and will post the conclusion.
New question. I had a switch that controlled power to a receptacle, so a lamp or something could be plugged into it and controlled by the switch.
One of the walls in the room was opened and the guys created a fixture for a ceiling fan based off the switch that once controlled the wall receptacle.
My question is the switch that controls the power to the ceiling fixture has a white and a black wire running to it (I think that's ok, right?), but does that explain why there is power always to the ceiling fixture?
If the switch is off and I take a neon-tester to the black and white wires the light barely goes on. If I turn the switch on and touch the wires, the light on the tester lights up very bright (as if I stuck both probes into a hot receptacle).
Does this sound OK?