Thanks for sharing those, deli.
Personally, I found part 2 the more interesting of the two. I did come up with rather an off-the-wall guess as to what was going on. I'm afraid it would be too much of a spoiler to tell you now, but I'd be happy to leave my guess with a trusted third person until the time is ripe (or clearly never will be).
I do think you should talk to Austin-T about what happened -- but keep coming from your own experience of it, not from the opinion (which I notice many here agree with) that he must have mishandled your session.