OK, I think have the fix for the infamous guest pages dated 1969...
This seems to be caused by the user

ager field getting set at -1
So, I went to my database and changed the field type for
pager in the user table from
INT to
tinyint
INT type fields support numberical values from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
tinyint type fields support numerical values from 0 to 255
This should eliminate the weird setting of value -1