I'm sure they can patch it, if they really wanted to. It seems that recreating the profiles did the trick...a bit of labor, but we are all good for now.
I am not ready to go to MiVB 9 for at least another year. 45 PBX's in the cluster, and quite a few unsupported controllers and many ASU's, we are just not ready for such a change. I am working on budgets for that now, hopefully it's reasonable. Speaking of, has anyone installed an EX yet and has any feedback? This seems to be the "gateway" option that we will be looking into. Migration to VMware or ISS with the addition of gateways.