Haha...love it. I should have mentioned that the autoshift issue occurred when out of the saddle rocking the bike back and forth with some gusto.

Ft. derailleur puts chain dead center, part of the derailleur even covers the larger chainring so that the chain shouldn't jump there. Ferryboat looks to be coming in dead center captain.

Okay, some teeth on each chainring are looking as if they got a chunk taken out of them. They look like they need to be replaced.

The chain is basically new.

Even with the chainrings needing replacement, the sag in the chain is not correct. None of my other bikes exhibit this. It is as if the rear derailleur is not pulling on the chain enough to take up the slack even though the spring seems to be okay as per the post above.

Yeah, I think you are right with your opening statement.