I think it turned out to be a glitch in software. I posted on the Futuremark forums and they suggested backing off a version of the Nvidia drivers. They were right. 44.03 does not have the bug, 45.23 does.

Of course, the older version of the drivers is a lot slower, resulting in lower frame rates and a much lower 3DMark score. *SIGH*...

Again, dosen't really suprise me. Think of all the processor time the GPU was saving in the new drivers by rendering things wrong. NVidia claimed it was a bug that their drivers were rendering nothing beyond the camera in 3DMark, so, I'm guessing this is a similar "bug". Of course now Futuremark won't call out these cheats anymore, since NVidia is back in the beta program. This also means it will be harder for anyone else to detect these cheets.

3DMark is just a big marketing number, and should be treated as such.