I believe car would act as you describe if it was running for a few seconds off of cold start valve/injector then stall because fuel injectors aren't firing. You mentioned checking vacuum at MPS. The 4-prong fuel injection harness plug on MPS must be plugged into MPS for car to run; otherwise, car will fire up for a few seconds on cold start valve then die because ecu won't send signal to injectors with MPS unplugged. Perhaps you knocked MPS plug loose when messing with vacuum hose?