Ohio residency guidlines when not regarding taxes or education?

I am currently unemployed and am not yet accepted to college. None of my income is taxable so I don't even bother filing my taxes. I can't find anything on residency requirements when it has nothing to do with the IRS or a college. I have a drivers license from another state. I have been gone from Ohio for very many years. Right now I am back but I don't know for how long, I do not own a home, I do not have a job, and I am not in school. I am trying to remedy at least one of the last two but so far I have absolutely no ties to Ohio other than being born here. I have never had a driver's license in Ohio. But Ohio has had the non existent license suspended for the last 9 years and now tells me it's expired and I have no driving privelages unless I get a temporary permit. My question is why should I relinquish my perfectly valid drivers license from another state for Ohio's backwards system that keeps suspending something that doesn't exist prompting me to not make it exist. How can Ohio say I have no driving privelages on a now expired license that never existed? My drivers license from my now home state is completely valid and legal. If I have a completely legal drivers license how can another state say I can't drive there when I'm only there temporarily? I live 10 mins from Indiana. 10 mins from KY. How is it they aren't constantly pulled over and told they don't have privelages to drive here? And in case anyone needs the info, my license is from California, but there simply can not be a law that says californians can not drive in Ohio can there? Does this sound a bit ridiculous to anyone else?