WoW... What A Week!

[Project2G]

I drive a 1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse GST that I picked up in May bone stock. So on Friday 11/9 my water pump went out and after putting in a new water pump on the 11th my starter went out. Since I have the walbro 255 and it takes a few tries to start the car while it builds up fuel pressure it finally decided to go out. After waiting a few days to get a new starter I got the car running again on Friday night 11/16 but when I drove the car around every time I would hit 3k rpm's I would hear this terrible noise and feel vibration. I could not think of what what causing the vibration. Me and a friend thought it could be the balance shafts since I did remove my AC. After realigning the balance shafts yesterday I drove around and it was still vibrating and feeling sluggish. I drove home (20 miles) and went to meet up with some girl to buy my old ECU. After the long drive I got off the freeway and was at a stop light and had the car in 1st gear with my clutch pushed in and when my light turned green I brought up the clutch but the clutch never came up and the car just kept accelerating. I could not pull it out of first gear, so I immedianlty pulled into a small center with small businesses and just parked there. So do you guys think I was hearing my pressure plate and throwout bearing vibrating? Was this my warning my clutch was going out?