As always, the WP community has bailed me out. I found a great little fix authored by JConroy. Neatly provides an easy to use work around. Proper credit can be found at his firm’s site: http://findingsimple.com
The fix can be downloaded from here: http://findingsimple.com/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1
Unfortunately, I cannot help. This note is only to reinforce that others are experiencing the same problem.
Love the plug-in, just needs a tweak to respond to the WP 2.8 upgrade.
