That behavior began after I made the code edits suggested above by fsfneo. I have since reverted to the original code in your plugin and filed a report with AdBlock Plus about the problem on the page(s). So for now, I am back to the plugin not rendering anything.
AdBlock Plus says it's a filtering problem. Hopefully they will identify the problem. I hope others on this thread will take a few minutes and file a report also. Here is a link to their page that explains how to submit the report:
Ad Block Plus Error Reporting