I realized the reason Quickbooks was not prompting me to install the new release because I already had the most recent release (V30.0D R11).  Once I confirmed I was up to date on updates, I proceeded to your final recommendation to Verify Rebuild and it found no errors/issues.  I'll continue to use the WORK AROUND that Mich_S. suggested, however, I would appreciate it if Quickbooks will look into this issue and issue an update to fix the problem.  I see that I'm not the only one having this issue and it appears the issue begin around 4/19/21.