Good post Thats more or less the conclusion i came to in the months since i first posted here. looking at the original post there was confusion as to whether...

Try dropping and recreating the user id on both servers. Finally worked for me after pulling my hair out for 2 hours. Orginally the problem was caused when I scripted...

so who to believe?

Ratio of Batch requests to Page Lookups should not be much greater than 100. If it is, it indicates too much logical I/O because of bad query plans

Thank you for providing an actual answer.