RF Induced Humming??

Your info is a bit incomplete Dave but I take it you're plugging an audio feed from the TV into your preamp? I had hum problems doing that, but found an easy way out. Car audio shops have little audio isolation transformers with RCA's in & out. You can put the coupling transformer in line with your interconnects to isolate the ground. It's only TV sound, so who cares about the little bit of quality degradation? Still sounds pretty good anyway.

Ok Dave this seems a bit more complex that first thought. Not sure now how the cable's ground hum is getting into your rig, as it sounds like they're isolated from each other, but apparently they are not (unless of course as in when you connect the VCR to the preamp, that's an obvious path).
Cable systems are widely notorious for these problems, as their ground's potential isn't normally the same as the ground in your house. One other thing that I recall doing was connecting a small 20awg. stranded insulated wire from a wall outlet's ground screw to the Cable coax's ground sleeve. I wrapped about 2"to3" of stripped bare wire around the F connector's sleeve & fastened it with a wide nylon cable tie. This achieves a common potential of house ground to cable ground, & may or may not help you but it's an easy experiment & almost free if it works. If any of your AC plugs are reversible you could try playing around with that as well. I'm still not sure if I have your whole picture in mind so if I've missed something then do elaborate as I (or someone else) may think of other alternatives. Usually the hum-bucker is suggested, but looks like that caused you some other problems.
Thanks BTW for your vote of confidence; I try to help others here as they've helped me too. I'm willing to discuss this via phone too, if you're otherwise unable to find a fix just email be via the hyperlink so I can get the "whole picture". Good luck!