Try reading through this thread: http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...threadid=17994
There is a solenoid that releases when you press the brake pedal that allows you to shift out of park. Yours may be boogered up, or maybe wasn't reconnected when you replaced the mode selector switch.
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