I'll check it out tonight! Nice find linux4me. You're a stud.
Funny... so I checked it out, and that is where I had commented out some functioning... including the if statement... I just never caught the difference between || and &&.
Having found that, there is still a problem with my system. While it solves what has been addressed here, I still have the problem of the system very randomly choosing to use, or not, the resized image vs the product_thumb_image.
I'm at a loss, but it works well either way in my case, so it's not that big of deal.
Linux4me, I'd say you nailed it. Kuddos!