I have checked and rechecked. Beleive me it's only this one module that's miss-behaving. Everything else is working fine. You know, it's a module position I created myself in a commercial template, and I'm wondering if that has something to do with it. Could it be that there's something missing in code somewhere?

I'm not sure. Was able to successfully protect the CBSubs module with a CBSubs plan. So can't say for sure what the cause is on your installation. I recommend starting over with just Joomla + CB + CBSubs in a sub-domain or sub-directory to see if you can rule out some of your issues.

Don't know what further to adivse. We don't debug and fix 3rd party development. Tampering with ACL is very dangerous and the SetSpecial extension you mentioned likely destroyed the ACL responsible for your site and/or module.

Once ACL has been altered it's very difficult to restore. Best way is to take a fresh install and review its ACL database tables and try to repair your existing site based off that comparison.

Debugging is a terribly painful process, but is necessary on any website being development. It's just something that consumes massive time. Sometimes more time to develop the site it self (another reason why pretty much no one provides support, except us).

We just simply don't have the time or resources to debug every 3rd party extension. We try of course to work with those who are using "absolute must haves", but even that list is short. Not something against any single user or extension it's just a matter of time.

The easiest approach is to duplicate your site and just start tweaking, uninstalling, etc.. without fear of messing up your real site. This will help you pinpoint the conflicts or problematic extensions.

I've turned my site into a developers resource and plan to add so much more, but you're welcome to review what's currently there.. includes tutorials, guides, and even software suggestions. Link as follows.

www.allmysocials.com/

Learning PHP is highly suggested especially so if intended on customizing the sites experience. You'll simply just never achieve everything you want "out of the box" with any software/CMS unfortunately.