What is your subnet mask for your DSL ip range?
Ah! An excellent question.
I had the default value of /32 configured for the WAN_DSL. Every time I edited the Gateway page for the WAN_DSL, it threw an error saying that the .1 was not in the range. The gateway was defined in the WAN_DSL Interface page (accepted it withoput error). Then I was looking at dhcp for the WAN_DSL (not enabled) but it showed a really short range.
I switched the subnet mask for the WAN_DSL interface to /24 and the gateway came back to online.
Small piece of the puzzle fixed.
Sadly it did not resolve the problem of the complete blocking of all traffic on the WAN_DSL. Before redoing this from scratch, I had it working and I've done something, or missed something that will probably open this up.
Thanks for your help.