// This was my breakthrough.  My first partially working code.
public static void clickByLocator( final By locator ) {
  staticlogger.info( "Click by locator: " + locator.toString() );		
  final long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait( 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS );
  Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>( driver )
        .withTimeout(90000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
        .pollingEvery(5500, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
        //.ignoring( StaleElementReferenceException.class );		
  wait.until( new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() { 
    @Override 
    public Boolean apply( WebDriver webDriver ) {
      try {
        webDriver.findElement( locator ).click();
        return true;
      } catch ( StaleElementReferenceException e ) {						
        staticlogger.info( e.getMessage() + "\n");
        staticlogger.info("Trying again...");
        return false;
      }		
    } 
  } );		
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait( DEFAULT_IMPLICIT_WAIT, TimeUnit.SECONDS );
  long endTime   = System.currentTimeMillis();
  long totalTime = endTime - startTime;
  staticlogger.info("Finished click after waiting for " + totalTime + " milliseconds.");
}