Nope, there is no output to the screen session, but it's an interesting question because I do an "ssh -t ..... address@hidden screen" to get in to a remote host. Maybe I should try sshing in as a terminal and run screen myself and see if the problem persists and/or a message is displayed that perhaps would not otherwise be displayed because of a tty issue?
ssh -t option:
−t Force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbitrary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful, e.g. when implementing menu services.
Thanks for the reply, and I look forward to any other comments.