You are on the right track. Things you can do to nail this
effectively and economically:

If the wires do poorly on a resistance check, replace. If
you do not understand this, ask away.

If the wires are more than five years old, replace.

How old are the cap and rotor in miles and years? Are they
OEM?

Use only the OEM recommended spark plugs, and only OEM
wires, rotor and cap. These pay for themselves in the long
run. (Believe me, I am cheap and learned the hard way.) They
do make a difference in performance.

Regular poster here "Tegger" has a site with much good
wisdom on it. See in particular
http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/faq.html#startrun

Elle
Original owner, 1991 Civic, 201k miles

"Thom" <thomcasey@gmail.com> wrote
> Very odd. the engine started to miss (sounds like one
> cylinder is not
> firing) for about 1 minute. It went away for 5 minutes,
> then came
> back, I replaced the plugs (they didn't look too good
> anyway), but it
> didn't help.
>
> Has anyone run accross this before. My first thought is
> the plug
> wires /dist/rotor, just need to be pointed in the right
> direction.