I have followed this thread and as I believe it has served it's multi-purposes I am now locking it.
@michaelgreen252: please start new single topic threads as needed if something here is still open. This will help others reading and searching for similar answers. Thanks for understanding.
Also, regarding your frustration (and ours) - software always has bugs - fact of life - nowhere do we claim that our scripts are bug free. Sometimes we are forced to actually fix things in our code because of bugs in other code/environments (e.g., Joomla, bad hosting, etc.).
This is what maintenance and support is all about.
The topic has been locked.