Hi, thanks for your input.
It makes sense, however I do have a host profile rule for both hosts... it's an IP range of two IP numbers. However, just looking at it now, the host profile rule only covers 2 IP numbers while the cluster and imageprofile rules cover a range of 6 hosts. Now the IP number is within that 2 IP number range, but this is looking pretty suspicious, so I am trying the -allhosts switch just to see if makes any difference.
That had finally occurred to me yesterday and I was just thinking I would look at that this morning and then I saw your email as well... great minds thinking alike perhaps;-)