I removed my last post, it was sufficiently answered by all members of staff. Thank you for your detailed answers, btw, I know where we stand on this issue.
I wanted to answer one of the issues brought up in that thread. It was a kind of wait-and-see-what-happens sort of issue. Well the dead links were reuploaded a third time, and are all dead in less than 24 hours.
Oliverno reuploaded the links Monday, and Now, Tuesday morning 4am EST, all are deleted. I don't think this is coincidence anymore, and I also don't think this is just an intermittent problem. Never mind that many thousands of my links are all dead. I got my slap on the wrist and now must go into the corner and wear my dunce cap.