Consider yourself blessed.
Here is my list of repairs I made on this van for the past year and a half : head gaskets, lifters , speedometer serviced ( twice ), secondary intake runner controller , egr intake ports cleaned , rear blower control switch , strut rod bushings replaced along with one sleeve replaced and the other welded, left front hub bearing , right lower control arm - (ball joint bad), both inner tie rods , dropping resistor for the coolant fan motor.
I am sure there is one or two that I am missing as well.
Items I have not fixed that have cropped up recently: timing cover gasket starting to seep coolant, anti-lock brake system has an issue ( there is a drive motor inside the unit that has failed) , egr valve is intermitently losing vacuum when it shouldn`t (control solenoid is going bad ).
I was in the auto repair industry for 17 years and have never owned a bigger piece of poop vehicle in my life.
I also own an 84 Ford E-150 and it is the best darn vehicle I have ever owned. That thing will break in half from rust before it stops runnung.
I hate minivans. I got by without having one by only having two children. They are grown now. Your Windstar does sound like the 85 Chevy Cavalier my Ex just had to have. Just a big pile of poop.