Thanks everybody. If things hadn't moved so quickly, I could have heeded your advice...
But the host admin took my "question" and "acted" on it before I saw the response. Probably the FIRST time that they have been so responsive. :-)
Everything seems to be working now, since I fixed the TIMEZONE issue. EXCEPT:
I'm getting hundreds of error/warnings about:
1) PHP Strict Standards:
Non-static method xxxlog::log() should not be called statically,
2) mysql_escape_string():
This function is deprecated; use mysql_real_escape_string() instead...
Dang, this takes me back a couple of years when I last messed around with PHP. This is the reason why I don't install every upgrade...
Again, thanks.