My takeaway from this back-and-forth is that not everything in calibre documentation *should* work. Out of the box, I've had a solid experience. My assumption, for any software, is that things in documentation are supported/tested (or at least acknowledged to be unreliable when that's the case).
I chose this software because of what was in documentation - that a db can live outside of the library. The tens of hours spent testing and then reading forums of people having the same problem as myself leaves me knowing that time could have instead been spent implementing something that actually fits the design I'm needing. If I continue to use calibre, it will only be with the default install.
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