For anyone that may end up reading this thread with a similar issue, I am going to close discussion on the topic here as it only seems logical that if I am to debug KUNENA, I do so with the dev. team's current svn for the public release of KUNENA 1.6.4 and NOT with this release.
Also for the record, if you've read through the topic, keep in mind what the moderator has commented upon; while I think they missed at one point what system is in use, his comments with regard to WAMP and XAMPP which very easily could be relevant (for Joomla, KUNENA OR ANY web oriented systems installed in such a fashion on a PC -
ALWAYS FIRST head to the WAMP or XAMPP PC documentation and support, before asking questions with the actual software environment community if you are running such an install on top of Windows...) -
Yet said recommendations do not apply for our development environment which is as follows:
IN-HOUSE PRODUCTION SERVER (TESTING/LAB SERVER) SYSTEM:
2 X AMD Dual Opterons at 2.6 GHz (4 total physical cores)
16 GB ECC DDR 400 RAM
TB's of RAID storage arrays...
This is an "older system" but still a very capable and viable platform with specs very similar to what you'll still see today with the majority of shared hosting providers using to serve a large group of customers.
OS Environment:
CentOS (RHEL) 5.5 x64 (up-to date as of this writing.)
ISPCONFIG 3.0.3.2 (A viable and highly recommended substitute for C-Panel, whose licensing costs cannot be warranted on an internal LAB SERVER)
PHP Enviroment:
PHP Version 5.2.16
Apache Enviroment:
Apache/2.2.17 (EL)
Obviously, MySQL:
MySQL Version: 5.1.52
And of course, part of running an ISP configuration, for ease of administrating MySQL; phpMyadmin is installed and up to date, though it's versioning and such is totally irrelevant to anything but being able to easily and properly administer your MySQL databases...
All of the "usual" PHP extensions one would find on the common shared hosting plans available today are in place and set up nearly identical to the majority of the shared hosting servers we see in use (and use or provide) today.
I am now off to PM the Moderator and we'll work with the dev. team here toward a goal of getting the 1.6.4 Public Release's svn - Joomla! 1.6x underway and bug/hiccup free...
Thanks