Hope this might help
The way the dome lights come on
1 Head light sw turned fully CCW
2 Each door sw ( a grnd thru sw when door opened)
3 Dome light timer if installed, the timer is placed in between the two door sw and is powered all the time.
I am not sure of the connector others can help, but you should be able to remove the timer and jumber the wht to wht wires or it may be wht/brn to wht. This would eliminate the timer and it would operate like the cars without the timer.
As to the anti theft relay if you hear it click when disconnected then it will be a drain, it may be slight but it would be comparable or a little more than the clock. And this means your alarm system is always armed even though it is not tuning on alarm
If the circuits are the same as the 77 if you pm me I can send you the breakdown of these circuits from a real good electrical T/S book for the 77 they are jpeg images