Site to Zone Assignment list and IEHarden

I am going to apologize for knowingly posting something incomplete on here.  Was at work late working on this issue and I'm in zombie mode today.

If your Site to Zone Assignment list via GPO seems not to be working, and especially if it is working for some users and not other users it could be a registry setting.  If a user profile is made before changing the IE Enhanced Security Mode it will inherit the registry setting.  Then you change the setting for users via Server Manger -> "Configure IE ESC" new profiles are created without the registry setting.

I connected via remote registry and under the user section for my user sid I went to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap
and found the value IEHarden set to 1.  If I set it to 0 and restarted IE it would do what I needed it to and expected it to.

I used this to solve my problems with the error of "an add-on for this website failed to run" and wouldn't start Java for a particular set of allowed sites.