Well, armed with that knowledge, I guess I won't respond any more. Not like it does any good anyway, the only responses I get is basically, we're looking in to it, which I have gut feeling the "looking in to it part" stopped when they hit the reply button. I really, REALLY don't want to have to go looking for, and switch to a new system again, but if they aren't going to support this one, I can't go on forever with a broken system.
I even tried a fresh upload (not overwrite) of the 5.2.2 files, just using the old configuration file, and the issue is still there. Just wanted to make sure a file didn't get borked up during the upload of the upgrade.