I never got to complete that last change. But, everything is now working.
Over the weekend the hosting provider took several actions. They turned off HHVM, recompiled my PHP and Apache server settings and then removed URE plugin.
I reinstalled the plugin nice and clean after all was done. It all works perfectly now.
No one could identify exactly what fixed things although they feel the HHVM could be the problem.
I do greatly appreciate all your efforts with this problem. Without the specifics you gave me they would have never figured any things to try. They aren’t coders so they couldn’t figure out where the problem could possibly be coming from in their set up.
