I feel stupid but let me post the resolution that worked for me
When I did the Map Tile Servers/Settings/Import/Map Tile Provider Settings Dec 15.xml to import the settings, the process natively populated the Map Tile Servers/Settings/Proxy/Proxy Address (text box) to "http://mt1.google.com/vt/v=w2.107&x=2117&y=1375&z=12".
Not knowing much if anything about IP Addresses, Proxies, Ports etc... I tried dozens of combinations in the Map Tile Servers/Settings/Proxy/Proxy Address (text box). Ultimately setting the Map Tile Servers/Settings/Proxy/Proxy Address (text box) to ":80" (without the quotation marks) was what worked. Here is how it looks:

I hope this will help others.
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