Kudos to Drupal Folks
I submitted my bug report to Drupal folks at 17:32.
At 18:43, they shifted the report from one group to another group (shifting the blame?), but at the same time they made a suggestion (revert to a version of code from over a month ago) that took me 5 minutes to implement, and it WORKED!!! YAH!!!
Granted it's stupid that I had to do revert to the previous version, but hey, it worked and I'm happy, and they got me an answer in an hour. Can't beat that! :-)
(Well, yeah, it could have worked the 1st time, but I've been a programmer long enough to just be very happy about the hour turn-around time).
So, now I can keep going on this project. Which is cool, but everything else is now taking a back-burner... and stacking up. I hope I get this blasted thing running pretty soon.

