3db, yes sir when I am back in Florida during Feb. I will check with the Driver licence office regarding the content of the link you found and I'll report here with what they said.
However having jumped through quite a few hoops when dealing with US government and State offices in the course of property buying, taxes ect, I can say federal/state employees do appear to work to their own agenda depending on which side of the bed they get out of on any given day regardless of how the official process is supposed to be followed ....