Hey Joseph. Thanks for chiming in. As much as I appreciate the input and help, it took so long to get a response here I actually solved the issue on accident a day or two later. But it was solved the worse way something can be solved. It solved itself ! lol I did nothing.
I hate it when things do that, cause technically nothing really fixed it. So it could do it again anytime. But so far its been about a week and all good.
I basically just kept resetting as I did (and yes I was doing it all right and according to proper protocol.) and one time it just has stayed. The only thing that I can think of is, since this is a new OS for me on a freshly cleaned drive, I have been reinstalling tons of my apps for work (Pro Tools, hundreds of plugins, etc..) so its possible one of them installs made something goofy for a sec and then the next instal fixed it ? IDK ? But its literally all that's changed.
That said folks, we are all good on this end. Thanks for the help.
Odd, I do have to say one thing - what happened to these forums ? Used to be way more popular, I used to get responses within minutes to a hour max. Within a day there'd be several responses. Now, this is the second time I've posted something and I just hear crickets and see tumbleweeds blowing by.
Apple got the sign in procedure like we are logging into our bank, now no one wants to come here. Its a real hassle just to log into a forum, this aint the pentagon, come on ! lol. Its really dead here. Might have to choose to find a new more populated forum on Apple help. Any suggestions ?