I've gone so far as to load Blender onto a clean machine and I can't replicate this problem.

Are you using the library function?

Could it be OS related? I'm on Windows.

LOL There is a certain measure of irony in this situation. You are trying to eliminate this problem, I'm trying to create the problem to understand it but neither of us is making any progress.

There has to be something simple we are both overlooking.