Dear ejbejbejbejb,
Love your post .... and believe me I'd like to feel heroic and find something that works for the sake of all of us.
I could be wrong, but I think most of the people in the thread are end users. We are IT service providers for VERY small businesses, and this is affecting a lot of users that want to have answers, and we can't provide one except "Microsoft is aware and working on it". We do not normally give up, but this is a wall we can't demolish, and we will never bill our customers for trying to fix this kind of mess.
On the other hand, the thread has gotten so big that is hard to navigate, and search is pretty limited. If anything has worked for anyone and you share them with me via e-mail (pedro.hermida @ innovate-it.us), I promise to compile them, create a separated thread and post the link here.
If I feel really brave, I maybe even test those solutions on selected customers.