i was able to force the connection i needed. While it's suggested to not do this.

Can you explain what you mean by this? I don't see that you are forcing anything. Encryption is EXP_CRYPT by default so that line does nothing different. useSSL is disabled by default so setting it to 0 does nothing different. The use of the trapWarn method just causes warnings to go to the DebugLogFile (since you defined one and set Debug to 1).