After seeing all the problems with this broken game over the past few months, I decided to look at the other GREE game forums to see if it is just MW or GREE as a whole. Surprise.....they have just as many issues with their game quality too. It appears GREE is just very bad at creating and maintaining functioning games.
Looks like I'll be heading to another app developer. maybe I'll join my two previous factions who are now playing CoC.