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.