didn't find anything in any of the tables with options in the name...
commented the 10 lines out as noted by Dzynit, and receive a T_PUBLIC error (not familiar with PHP)...
tried kprimdal's suggestion in the functions.php file and all it did was appear on the top of every page and post...
Google is ramping up the rel=author and if push comes to shove, I'm going to deactivate WordPress SEO in favor of another until this bug gets fixed...