I did all the normal clean everything out, on a lark I thought I would try the incognito window, that let me do a normal sign in, of course that did not hold when I closed and tried the normal window.

It was a long day, but after getting to the steemit log in page again, I noticed the big steemit logo on the upper left, that is also a returning user login, and it worked. So issue resolved after almost 12 hours of futzing.

Window MS Explorer is not very user friendly, it would not open steemworld and would only show about 12 thumbnails in the feed, so was not a very happy person, but I finally got it to work, now hoping it holds through tomorrow.