Mining Active - BUT HUNG! On GTX 1070, Unpaid Balance, no change 48 hours

Running latest  Norton 360 version 22.21.8.62 on Windows 10 Home V 21H1, 64 Bit, Build 19043.1237, Feature Pack 120.2212.3530.0

Unpaid mining balance has been stuck at 0.003635 ETH for over 48 hours. 

Miner is active,  GPU is under 11% utilization mostly (but varies from 1% to 18%) with dedicated memory at 5.1GB or 8.0 available, shared at 0.1 GB,  System Memory at 26% or 8.2 GB of 31.8 GB total. 

Have rebooted several times with no change in mining unpaid balance, the circle showing incremental usage over 10 minutes, had been stuck at a constant at 0.003635 ETH for this 2 day period. 

Hash rate is 40.659328 MH/s at the start of this message (now hash rate is currently down to 8.451793 MH/s, but up from the attached screenshot).  NCrypt.exe timestamp Friday, Sept 17, 2021 9:58.38 AM., File Version 1.0.0.59, Product Version 1.0, Size 3.87 MB, no previous NCrypt.exe versions are listed in the properties window.

I noticed another comment from admins saying the Stuck Miner had a targeted update [Hotfix 22.21.8.62 (64 bit OS only)] which has a 1.0.0.59 version, which seems to be in my system. 

I have run the AutoDetectPkg.exe today and it says "You are running the latest version"  but I think this is for 360 not the Miner.  But if the HOTFIX is correct, then I am running what is supposed to work!  BUT it is not working! 

There is another thread [Hotfix 22.21.8.62 (64 bit OS only) did not fix the miner hang issue]  which shows others are having problems with the Miner, some like me and some not like me.

HELP.  How do I get unstuck, and back to mining, and what about all the productive mining time I have lost, because Norton is getting paid for the aggregated Hash Rate, even if they are not paying us!

unpaid balance is accruing again for me. dont see any jump though. man i hope i didnt waste the last two days mining for nuthin.

https://community.norton.com/en/forums/pending-payout-not-accumulating