Content Distribution Challenges

Content distribution is driving me a up a wall here. We've been pounding our heads against a desk for the last two weeks.
Long story short - one primary, seven remote DPs, varying WAN speeds. Also have one CloudDP.
Software distribution works fine.
Content distribution to the remote DPs and CloudDPs is NOT working fine.
When distributing content to the CloudDP, I get this from the pkgxfrmgr.log
ERROR: Could not get the package upload location! SMS_PACKAGE_TRANSFER_MANAGER 2/25/2013 8:07:24 AM 4324 (0x10E4)
STATMSG: ID=9303 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_CLOUD_CONTENT_MANAGER" SYS=CMblah.fqdn.com SITE=ugh PID=4716 TID=4324 GMTDATE=Mon Feb 25 15:07:24.711 2013 ISTR0="ugh00034" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=2 AID0=400 AVAL0="ugh00034" AID1=404 AVAL1="["Display=\\(CloudDP).fqdn.com\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=ugh"]\\(CloudDP).fqdn.com\" SMS_PACKAGE_TRANSFER_MANAGER 2/25/2013 8:07:24 AM 4324 (0x10E4)
WARNING: Warning - returning null/empty download address from content upload ugh00034 SMS_PACKAGE_TRANSFER_MANAGER 2/25/2013 8:07:24 AM 4324 (0x10E4)
STATMSG: ID=9310 SEV=W LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_CLOUD_CONTENT_MANAGER" SYS=CMblah.fqdn.com SITE=ugh PID=4716 TID=4324 GMTDATE=Mon Feb 25 15:07:24.724 2013 ISTR0="ugh00034" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=2 AID0=400 AVAL0="00100034" AID1=404 AVAL1="["Display=\\(CloudDP).fqdn.com\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=ugh"]\\(CloudDP).fqdn.com\" SMS_PACKAGE_TRANSFER_MANAGER 2/25/2013 8:07:24 AM 4324 (0x10E4)
Failed to generate contentinfo for the package. BranchCache feature might not be turned on. SMS_PACKAGE_TRANSFER_MANAGER 2/25/2013 8:07:24 AM 4324 (0x10E4)
When I remove the package and redistribute, there's a very good change it will succeed.
When I distribute to remote DPs on our WAN, I get the same "returning null/empty download address from content upload...." error.
Any ideas? I do have a ticket open with PSS, but lately it seems they are very overwhelmed.

I have seen the same a few times in different environments. I have also contacted Microsoft, hopefully I will get an answer soon. I know it might not be the answer you are looking for but now you know you are not alone.
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