Talk to me about the neutral safety switch....

[Chrispbrown36]

Today I got motivated to see why my reverse lights weren't working on my 87 V10. Traced the wiring and there is no obvious breaks anywhere. Pulled the neutral safety switch and I am assuming that it is the problem, but I have a few questions. First of all, only the prongs for the reverse lights had anything plugged into it. There are three pairs of prongs on there. The one on the truck had the center pair of prongs bent and broken off. Should something be plugged up on the other two sets of prongs? I didn't see any loose connectors hanging around and, until I started messing around with it, everything but the reverse lights worked. Which brings me to my next question. After messing around with it I popped the old switch back in place and plugged it back up. I towed my boat trailer down to a neighbors house for him to weld something for me. As I was leaving I noticed I had no brake lights, running lights, and still no reverse lights. Do all the lights run through this switch or did I screw something up elsewhere?