To repopulate the persistent cache I ran a couple of “full system scans” using default settings and found these
rather strange results.

Guess, the files got deleted from the GC cache.

maybe “chrome” was installed when you installed the new avast 9.x program and it caused some problems with a chrome-installation that you already had?

some people have said that the installer for the new avast 9.x program installed chrome on their computers… i have heard that, when that happens, if chrome was already installed, it mangles the chrome-installation…

I doubt it could be a Chrome install since I have been using Chrome for almost a year now.
And this did not occur during any of the beta tests.

I should have mentioned I ran CCleaner to see if that was an issue…it wasn’t. ???

Fixed with the latest vps update! 8)