I can see your frustration with me was just as much as mine with this bug.
I may owe an apology to those involved, but you should know that I've been a systems administrator and network technician for almost 20 years now. I understand the concept of SLA's and have bought many in my past.
The point you missed was that I couldn't get a response at all regarding this bug and felt personally that the only way I was going to get a response was either to spend money or complain till someone got mad at me and responded. In this case, I got more answers by being a jerk, than by acting human and polite.
That said, I wish to thank you and robax both, as well as the developers and members who were actively testing and trying to figure out what is causing this. What I found ironic, (but not surprising) was that the posts your forwarded me to in Gemini were not more than 4 days old that I saw, which tells me that while others have said this is a known issue, tracking of it hadn't started until very recently. Enough said.
Again, thank you all for atleast some resolution and response to this problem, as the temporary fix seems to be to disable the 'Member List' feature in the forum module. I apologize for being a jerk, but in this case, it got results. Imagine that --
You are also right in the aspect that these people spend many hours developing and they deserve the thanks as well, which I am offering here -- THANK YOU ALL for your help and the DNN product.