Hi Keymaster,
1) Thank you 
2) I figured out the debug conflict; thats what I meant in my update, point 1
2a) I was thinking to suggest a note in the plugin’s help file for that area advising people to turn off debugging if they had it on… I had simply forgotten (this is only a test site).
3) It did seem to me that there were some issues with the display of admin alert messages which did not clear away after following the ‘Reset Last Modified Time in DB’ instructions though the time values did seem to be changed.
3a) This behavior seemed to disappear after I logged out for a awhile; upon login, I was able to clear such messages as expected.
Things are going well now. I appreciate the assistance very much, thanks. I do have one fresh Q:
4) I have always been bugged at how WP offers user name data for discovery and love the ability to address that with BPSpro; I also have read this thread from the forums here on ‘Author Enumeration Bot Probe Protection’ and wanted to check with you if the code example used here can be used or adapted to work with a multisite environment?
Kind Regards, Max