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This is a master bug that I will hang sub bugs off of. Basically, the current Progress Handler is a mess. This bug relates to file vtkPVProgressHandler.cxx, plus imbedded code in all of the filters that calls it. I am seeing the following:

• No parameter checking for bad input variables. (progress should generally be 0.0 to 1.0 within the code)
• No print statements in the Progress Handler that can be turned on that shows that progress actually increments.
• Intermixing progress of a range of 0.0 to 1.0 and 0.0 to 100.0 within the same object/functions. This is undocumented, and very confusing.
• Progress coming into the Progress Handler from filters (expected progress of 0.0-1.0) with a range up to 10's or 100's (1000% to 10000% done).
• Some conditions (such as a status of 0.0, or any number out of the 0-1 range) that is flooding MPI with messages.
• Some filters, such as the CTH reader, that runs absolutely crazy progress. For instance, with the CTH reader, status is 0.0 to 0.2, then backs up and runs 0.04 to 0.38, then 0.64 to 1.0.
• Running multiple server sometimes provides crazy results (see ranges outside of 0.0-1.0 above).

That's probably a good start. I will post additional bug reports with specifics.