It's a programming or scripting goof by an Apple developer. There is no network here, single stand alone PC. It's just been setup to look for networked drives/services by default but then doesn't alter the state if it does not find any. What's really bad with this is that Apple must have known about this issue during beta testing phase or RC stage and have not fixed it. Here's looking forward to 10.9.1 or maybe one more - lol. I am just grateful your diligence to customer support found me a fix, it's an early Christmas pressie for me, so thank you again.

Martin Spencer-Ford