I don't get how this is a snag, it's right there in the log.

Agreed.

> At the time, I went "WTF?" and just commented it out to get it running again. I had bigger fish to fry... and just kind of forgot about it. Everything seemed fine.

I get this, but now you get to laugh and dust yourself off. If it had silently started doing the wrong thing, that would be a worthy complaint.