So after several deep searches on Google and a couple of chats with Merlin at St Charles Isuzu, I discovered the root of my problem. The plastic inner sleeve thingy that sits under our shift handle broke in half. Because of this, the VX does not go cleanly into park. This makes it hard to take out the key which makes me have to jam the handle into park harder which breaks the inner sleeve worse and on and on she goes. Long story short, I have a brand new inner sleeve ordered and en route. Hopefully, it will be in my hands and in my VX sometime Monday. I'll post a conclusion to this either way just in case my experience can prove helpful to one of you folks at some point down the line...