Okay... I still cannot find that "exact" line of code. I even performed a find and replace in Dreamweaver after manually scrolling 2300 plus lines and it wasn't found. Then I pulled a fresh vb.zip for the functions.php file (figuring maybe a hack modified it) and still no match.
Either I'm nuts, blind, or that code is not in there

There is no code that starts with $post[off] whatsoever in the functions.php version 2.2.8.
Please advise?!?
Thanks for your time,
Greg