if anyone wants to reproduce the above..
1. place a good .cap in root
2. cowpatty -r Xxxxxx.cap -c
that will produce the "good" return message.
3. wpaclean Xxxxxx22.cap Xxxxxx.cap
that will messup the output .cap for sure.
4. cowpatty -r Xxxxxx22.cap -c
that will produce the "bad" return message.