Hey Big Vern, Lots of questions in this post. You mention you're under a serious time crunch. I've read your post, but what is the end goal? Is it to enable TXT? I just want to make sure your issue gets resolved and documentation issues can be cleare...

Did you rebuild the FI manually? Have you tried to "Activate" the firmware in the "Installed Firmware" tab? That is typically the resolution for your scenario. In this "Installed Firmware" tab, this scenario would show a "Running-Version" value in it...