Thanks much, Shorty J!
I followed your steps, and did it twice. Alas, it did not work. I then cleared the Google Services Framework data one more time and rebooted my phone. After starting up, the phone prompted me that there was an update available. Yeah!
I was starting to get some nasty battery drain (6-8 hours, with little use, to empty) from something running in my "Kernel (Android OS)." I couldn't figure out what it was, so I was close to doing a factory reset. With FL24 pending, I was delaying the reset. It looks like the FL24 update unfroze the thing that was continuously tasking my cpu. It's nice to have my battery life back, without having to re-install all of my programs, etc. I'll do a factory reset when I get JB, but held off on this incremental update.
Thanks again!
Tom
BTW... I think that it is "Update Firmware" rather than the "Samsung software" that needs to be selected for OS updates. Could be wrong, as I was prompted on boot-up to update. But, in the past, I did updates by selecting "Update Firmware."