Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable!

I have a Dual CS-5000 that causes records to amass static.  It has a grounded bearing/spindle but that doesn't seem to help.  I replaced the stock mat with a Herbie's Excellent mat and this helped some with the static, worked better with the sound.  A definite step up from the stock rubber mat which to me sucked the life out of the music.  I tried a cork mat and that didn't help either.  

So, I use a carbon fiber brush before and after play on each side and do a quick blast with a Zerostat after the second side is played.  The odd thing is that I don't notice as much static until I play the second side then lift it off to put it back in it's rice paper sleeve and I hear that crackle and of course any dust in the air immediately attacks the record before I can get it back in the sleeve. The Zerostat seemed to help with this phenomenon.  

Nick, do you, or does the OP, have a wool carpet underfoot?  Leather-soled shoes?  Very often, the static charge happens because of what the user brings up to the turntable (what he or she is standing on, what shoes he or she is wearing) during the changing of an LP. Like you, I'd use the zerostat way before I would use the Gruv Glide, based on chayro's description of how the stylus must clean it off an LP.

I do have a big Persian rug that everything sits on. I've got the Milty, anti static brushes, creams, ointments, if it's anti static I've bought it! Again, vinyl is dead when pulled from jacket. Upon playing record, it's an electrical storm.

Low humidity in Miami is oxymoron :)  I'll keep blasting the vinyl with the Milty before and after each play. Maybe a better ground will help?

I have wall to wall carpeting made of some kind of synthetic.  
The thing is, I have two turntables in the same room.  The Dual and a Bluenote Bellavista Signature and that produces no static at all.  Of course the platter is not aluminum like the Dual's.