Ok Update on this I had the DA Support help me troubleshoot this a bit further and here's what happened.
For the record I'm running the latest Directadmin, Almalinux 9, with Apache, MariaDB, and PHP 8.1, I would like to have PHP 8.2 installed too, but some of the software running on my server requires IonCube.
The Good news is that IonCube 13.0.1 supports PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2 now since version 13.0.0.
The Bad news is version 13.0.0 and above have an issue with directadmin's php password generation script that ceases functionality of all password generation.
The only viable fix until the folks at Directadmin can update the password generation script to support later versions IonCube is to default to IonCube 12.0.4 with PHP 8.1.
DA Support also mentioned that the problem appeared when using OpCache and IonCube 13.0.X together on PHP 8.1, PHP 7.4 doesn't have such an issue. They stated that this may be a bug and have reported it.
Anyways I want to shout out a big "Thank You!" to the Techs at DA Support for helping me with this as I was seriously digging through everything trying to find the reason why it wasn't working.