DUDE -- Two thumbs way up for this effort of yours!!!! YES IT WORKS !!!!!!!!!

It did fine on the virtual machine that I did POC earlier.

I'll reach my 'original' box first thing tomorrow morning  and replicate it! However there's a possible caveat....

This box needs users to sudo into root to do almost everything.  When I did mv ../lib* . , I did it as root. Now that I am a regular user, the question is whether or not this command would execute when I run it as myself. In any case, kudos to oldmaven --- my issue is more of an experimental fun than a necessity at this point (a new machine has already been shipped to the data center). I can always use this one as a load balancer if we decide to keep it there! 

Thanks everyone involved in this discussion thread for your intiative and input.

Technology Rocks ~eh!!

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