I think I may have figured it out. If it is indeed what I think it is then it should be added to the FAQ and reported to MM.
Ok, here is the situation: I am about to take my large fleet (500 ships or so) into the Shark space; so I need to unmothball my warp point opener/closer to do so. I go and try but it won't happen as I have already explained. For the past 20 turns or so I've been using a Resource Converter to make up for my loss in minerals and keep my empire running smoothly. So after all this unmothball mess I decide I'll just refit my Nebula destroyer into a Warp point opener/closer. But when I go and try to do so it tells me I do not have enough resources to do this. Even though I have close to a million of each resource in storage. So I start thinking that maybe if I shut off my auto repeat of the resource converter to see what happens. So I do so and boom, my unmothballing now works. If I am not mistaken this is probably a bug of some sort that no one has ever seen before. Strange, eh?

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