just walked in... grabbin a sammich and heading out again for a few.

@Sed... I am running the released 4.10.10... as is my fellow raid members.

will fire up the PC and Mac both and run the codes on both and post the results when I return.

thanks again to all with ideas.. I have scratched most of the hair out of my head trying to figure this one out.

---------- Post added 2012-03-01 at 08:07 PM ----------

PC was cool with codes.
just no DBM seen on the Mac.

solution... took my WoW folder and tossed in the trash.
downloaded fresh. ( FiOS is nice )
came into game zero add-ons. ( gawd what an ugly UI )

logged out and installed Deadly Boss.

logged in... made raid... all good.. 4.10.10 seen by the other 3 in raid as well as mine showing 4 of us with it installed.

this doesn't answer wtf was blocking..
but at this point, I needed to stop head scratching and make it work.
I like the mod and it's very needed to work correctly for people like me that need all the help we can get.

being it's Mac... I made a 30Gig .zip of my previous install. when i get time, i shall dump it on another drive and run it again to see if the failure can be found.

thanks again to all suggestions and if any of the Devs have questions or want me to try anything else with it.. just message me and I would be happy to toss it on my other drive and work with you.

thanks again guys.