2.5 Stable - Auto Updater failing

[justbrock]

In trying to find out why I could not get the 'auto updater' to show needed updates of my custom extension, it has been determined that the #__update table is NOT capturing the extension ID when the items are added to the table.
Steps to reproduce:
1) click 'Purge cache'
2) check mysql table to verify its empty
3) click 'Find updates'
4) check mysql table, new items were added to #__update table, with value of 0 in extension_id
5) manually add the proper extension_id and the correct items show in the 'updates list'