Thanks - haven't seen the issue for a couple days now. Although my wife says it had gone away previous for a few days and "came back" after running some virus scans. We'll watch for a few more days, but I think it's fixed.
Belahzur - want to thank you for all of your help and guidance on this. Let's call this issue resolved as I haven't seen the issue on the system for several days now. If for some reason it pops up on us again I can just open another thread and refer to this. But I think it's gone due to your help.
Shame I was looking at how to make a donation and it's kind of limited to buying the software. I'll go ahead and do that but would have preferred something a little more substantial and that would go more direct.