Just curious...what was the issue?
If the fix works, then the problem was with a few of the nodes.
I added the latest patch early this AM. Wallet synced. I came home and wallet was still synced, much to my surprise. I closed the wallet and restarted it and it still synced. I used the last patch which contained the new .conf. Since then everything has been operating normally. The question now is, if it was a node, what node was causing the issue and why?