If i dial the number, life is good, and the outside access code is stripped out.  Would not the forwarded number also match the same dial peer, since its the same format?

Difficult to comment on that, can you post some debugs here? debug ccsip message/debug voip ccapi inout from the CUBE would be great.

Hello George.  I got it sorted.   There were 2 diversion headers in the invite, the first coming from cucm, the 2nd from the sip profiles.  The first was invalid, so its why it was failing.  I unchecked "redirect diversion header-outbound" on the sip trunk, reset, and all is working.  Correct diversion headers.

Thank you for your quick reply and suggestions.