OK, now on to my next question...I see documented in many places for example on Stack Exchange's WordPress Answers, that in fact wp-cron does not clean up garbage left behind by things such as deleted plugins, widgets, themes, etc that used an action hook for transients...
As I stated above, I have deleted W3 from my sites (was not working well with some themes and plugins) and there are W3 transients left in the Database...wp-cron is not removing them as they are still there.
I have read all about how them being there is not an issue - and that being debated, but I want to review my options table and not have to look through this left over garbage...
I respect all your thoughts on this...
Thanks.