DAMN!

After spending 4 days not being able to make head or tail of the bug, I decided to look up in TD the description of a similar bug filed long back. This bug turned out to be EXACTLY what PuLa was describing in the escalation! Furthermore, the bug report said that it is an issue peculiar ONLY to the OM, not the UM. I had been trying to reproduce the issue in UM like Dukhi and I had discussed. The bug had been fixed in 65 days, and the current solution is just to back-port the fix to 611. I feel so cheated, I have been robbed! SHIT!