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Ill bet the tranny is locked up. When in park or neutral, a transmission is essentially disengaged from the engine. But once in gear, the transmission is turning with the engine, even if you are stopped. So, if the tranny is locked up, in park the engine will run fine. Put it in gear, and the engine, because it is now mated to the tranny, is trying to turn the tranny and cant. So it dies.
The fluid is probably transmission. My guess is that when the tranny locked up, it caused a backup of pressure somewhere in the fluid cooling lines. (Most vehicles have a line that runs from the tranny to the (usually) lowere section of the radiator and another that runs back to the tranny. This allows the radiator to cool both the tranny fluid (and hence the tranny) as well as the antifreeze/coolant (and thus the engine). On of these lines likely popped due to the excess pressure that built up when the tranny locked up.
JStrider, sacrificing a virgin to the car gods wont help you avoid the roughly $1k it will cost to fix your vehicle. However, sacrificing said virgin to the mechanic who is going to do the job....
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