While the issue of MetLife life insurance accounts reporting total value (instead of cash-only value) was never solved, the IRA value WAS updating properly at the same time.
Now, I cannot connect to MetLife accounts at all! I am receiving FDP-102 error on both IRA and Life Insurance accounts for both my wife and myself… for the past 2 weeks.
NOTE: I have tried to create a NEW Quicken File and log in to only ONE of the accounts as a test: The result is that while I was able to create the account, once it was set up, I received the same message saying that "Quicken could not connect…." So, that part of my own testing is complete and failed !