Ok, this turned out to be a view state problem. There were AD2 and AK .dll files at all three folder locations below (all of which were defined in the Sonar VST plugin paths), but only one set showed in the Sonar browser (the ones at the \Steinberg\vstplugins path) - which turned out to be old and problematic DLL versions. This is why deleting and reloading AD2 and AK via the Online Installer didn't fix it...because the Steinberg path was not defined there. I'm not sure when or how that folder was actually created, but deleting those dll's and rescanning in Sonar did the trick.
c:\Program Files (x86)\vstplugins
c:\Program Files\vstplugins
c:\Program Files\Steinberg\vstplugins <<<< this is where the old x64 versions were.
Hope this helps,
G