Problems with new start button right-click context menu

I have been unable to come up with a rhyme or reason to this problem.
For some reason the Windows 8.1 start button will no longer respond to a right-click.  The context menu will not come up.  You can see that the active window is no longer active because the border color changes.  The start button works as
expected when left-clicking it.
I first noticed this on a brand new Windows 8 machine that I upgraded to Windows 8.1.  The problem occurred while I was messing with trying to customize the default user profile.  The next time I logged in with a new user account the start button
was broke.  The system I was using was stripped down.  It had NO additional software on it except the drivers and necessary associated applications, and all available Windows updates were installed.  I chaulked it up to something I messed up.
Next, I reformatted 20 lab computers with Windows 8.1 Pro and joined them to a Server 2003 domain.  Users have roaming profiles and folder redirection policies.  The folder redirection policies redirect AppData, Documents, and Desktop to a folder
on the server and the contents of these folders are shared between Windows XP and Windows 8.1.  The roaming profiles are unique and new.  Thus far all users have only logged on to Windows XP so they have the version 1 profile and when they logon
to the Windows 8.1 box a new .v2 profile folder is created.
Today, we logged about 12 users into these individual machines for the first time and about 3 or 4 of them could not right-click their start button.  Once the problem occurs, it never goes away regardless of what machine they log into.  The only
way to solve the problem is to default the profile off the computer and delete the roaming profile folder off the server.  The problem has reoccurred after this but I'm not sure what triggers it.
In addition, I have tried renaming the user's redirected application data folder and letting Windows 8.1 create a new one in case there was a conflict with a Windows XP setting.  This did not resolve the issue.

In my environment we had a network "Default User.V2" profile that we used with Win7 clients.  Now, with Win8 and Win8.1 we've configured the clients to use V3 and V4 profiles (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2887239/en-us). 
That link is for the Win8 hotfix, which changes the roaming profile of users to .V3, but there's also one for 8.1 and it changes the profile folder to .V4.
Anyway, we have since deleted the Default User.V2 from our network.  In testing the creation of .V4 roaming profiles with Win8.1, I've figured out a little more about the WinX folder.  If I have a roaming profile and log into a Win8.1 computer
for the first time, the WinX folder is created as part of my profile during the "Hi, we're setting things up, many bright colors" spiel before you get to the Metro screen.  However, when I log out, because the WinX folder is in the Local AppData, it doesn't
get uploaded to my roaming profile location.  If I then log back into the same computer, everything is fine because that computer still has a local copy of my profile with WinX in the Local AppData.  However, if I log into any other computer, the
WinX folder doesn't get created and I can no longer right click on the Start menu (until I copy it to my Local AppData on that computer).
So, it seems that when I first log in to a Win8.1 computer and go through the "Hi....etc etc....many different colors" startup, the WinX folder is created and will work on that computer, but if I log into another computer, it isn't downloaded as part of
my roaming profile or re-created.  Also, if you have the GPO set to delete copies of roaming profiles off of the computer when a user logs out, I would guess that the WinX folder would then get deleted and when you log back in you'd have the same issue.

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