[speedracersdead]

Thanks, I hadn't thought to look at that setting, but when I did I found that it was not checked.

Also another interesting development....I took my Stock/OEM charger to work with me today with the intentions of plugging into the wall. Decided to take the brick off and plug the USB into my office PC (same port as with the non-OEM mini USB) and it charged without issue(!)

I'm starting to think that the issue is with the mini USB (non-HTC mini usb-ext) cords. While I have several here of different manufacture and purpose, none of them seem to charge either from the PC or with the OEM brick. I don't have another htc usb-ext cord to try at the moment....but this is interesting.