On 9/4/2011 12:55 PM, tiredofspam wrote:
No, the neutral is still the ground.

Nonsense. Neutral and ground are two different things. A circuit using
only two wires has *no* ground.

BTW if you attach a meter to the hot and neutral you'll get voltage.
Attach the hot and ground and you'll get voltage.

My house was wired so that neutral and ground are one and the same...

No, it was not. It was wired without a ground.

My second box was not allowed by code to do that.
It had to have neutral and ground seperated...
No idea why, but that's code.

For safety.