Nick:
While I did try that (and all the other "preface your lines with this" suggestion that I found, it is quite possible that I did it in a command shell that had already been killed by the process - in other words, what I did was run my original batch, note the behavior, research on the web, find the suggested fixes, modify the batch file, then attempt to re-run it in the same command prompt shell. (what was I thinking?)
I probably never killed the shell and restarted between each attempt to run the batch file. However, even though it _is_ admittedly overkill, the Powershell script works reliably and the only issues that I have at this point are those caused by corrupt input books - as Kovid pointed out above, garbage in, garbage out.
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