This all sounds really familiar.
Same squad too, I believe.
I tried to move a Task force 2 or 3 sectors towards usefullness, which would have still left it aprox 3 sectors away from the action.
Its course was immediatly changed back to where it was.
I changed it again about 5 minutes later.
I was then called some very unsavory (yet vaguely familiar) names by several of members of a certain squad.
Of course I immediatly changed the course again to much ballyhoo.
More name calling and course changing.
Now all this while at least 2 guys had flown some 25s or 26s to find and kill this thing to no avail.( they knew its general location)
One way trip, no way they had the fuel to make it home as the CV was buried in the corner of the map.
So I turned into the petulant little baby that I am and called out the location on 200.
More name calling etc.
I logged off.