to close this saga. I could not find a lead on the unicorn bulbs and by happenstance, I was visiting a junkyard looking for something unrelated to rovers, when I found a D1. disassembled the cluster and pulled the bulbs. removed the SRS harness, bisected said harness and found the location of the load emulator.
came home, located mine in general same spot, tested old resistor versus new, verified failure and replaced. had a friend clear the SRS code which read "The harness check resistor is measuring open circuit".
normally the SRS would blink with out a reason, it would clear and may stay off for a while or come back on immediately, or may blink upon start up and remain on. those actions would be emulated by old resistor when tested, the meter would read any where from .05 ohm to infinite when wiggled. the new resistor shows a steady 2.1 ohm which is it's stated value.
in case someone else is looking for location of said resistor, it is located on the SRS harness, just before the y split at the junction of the tunnel and firewall. same general area just below the heater pipes. there you will find the thin wire loom meets with a thicker wire loom. on my 95 classic it loops two brown with white stripe wires, the factory is crimped, I chose to solder versus crimping the new replacement.