Evil Exception Handling

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........here's what I started this morning with(click to enlarge):

Can anyone spot the exception? the real exception?

Ya, me neither, I have no clue what happened because of these lines:

After commenting out the exception squishing code above and rebuilding, here are the images of the results I see now(I cut the screen shot into two because it was too big for one). 

Now can you spot the actual problem?

The problem was simple, my local copy of the database for this app is out of date, I just need to update. But to figure this out I had to crack open the solution, comment out lines of code that added zero value(actually reduced value), rebuild and then see the issue. Frustrating.