I actually installed Vbul clean, no addons, no hacks, and the problem still persists. It must be something with my host I'm guessing.
Your host would not be interfereing with your MySQL tables. When you reinstalled, did you also start with a fresh MySQL DB? If not, I wonder whether the vBulletin install just removes data if the tables already exist, under that circumstance the extra field would not have been removed. For sure, something was/is installed that has added a field to the table. Have you checked through all of the product XML's for any hack previously installed? The culprit should be in one of them, probably part of the install script.