The real test would be to put the plugs back in, and see if it still fails.  I would be worried that there was a broken wire going to the coil.  I'm not familiar with the second gen coils, but I assume there's power, or ground, or something that can take out the coil.  I would run it briefly as is, and make sure it's still OK, then put the plugs you just took out in, and run it again.  I would make every effort not to touch any wiring other than the plug wires.  If that's bad, I would put the new plugs back in, and try again, still without touching any other wires.  That test will give you a pretty good idea if it's really the plugs.  

 

It does seem hard to believe that the plugs could both be bad, unless maybe they missed you, and died of loneliness :-)