Yeah Nevada, I feel for you.
The manuals almost always give a resistance value through the stator, but rarely tell you to check for cont.to ground. THAT is how they fail, almost everytime. The insulation fails and they short to ground, or the windings break and continuity through them goes to infinity(and show as short to ground). If a stator shows continuity to ground, it has failed, no ifs, ands, or buts.
When I worked for a big Yam/Suzuki dealership and was going to factory schools on a regular basis they had warranty return numbers on coils, CDI's, and stators. They would request the parts back from the dealers to test. 80-90% of all CDI's and spark coils that were replaced on warranty were mis-diagnosed and were fine. There was a big push on to get technicians to replace only the real culprit and not to "parts swap" the problem gone.
Like I said in an earlier post, stators are FAR more likely to fail than any other component in the ignition. They have the harshest environment, stuck under the flywheel going from ambient(air temp) to hundreds of degrees and dealing with being solidly mounted to the engine and vibrating with it, plus the magnetic tug from the flywheel vibrating the stator coils themselves.
Oh, side note, of the CDI's that did actually FAIL, the majority of them were being run with non-resistor plugs which degrades the internal capacitor some thousands of times faster.