Gentlemen,
Upon review of this case I have elected to not seek an at cost solution for what I believe is a vendor related issue.
We will abandon the profile and create another moving the Exchange store and everything required to move forward in this way - a workaround indeed but the burn rate on this issue is unacceptable.
To everyone that pinged up - thank you.
If I stumble into the solution I will ping up.
Again, thank you and,
Cheers, JK