I used Sigil (a tip from someone else here) to remove the color entries from stylesheet.css and that fixed it.
Making the text slightly off-black was pointless because all reader software and dedicated ebook devices default to black on white. What that did, was bollix things for anyone not wanting to use the default. (It was most likely the person who prepared the original text for conversion, not the author.)
Reader software should have the ability to thumb its digital nose at such things, especially for readers with vision problems that can see other color combinations better or who simply want to use color combinations that use less power, which white text on black does very well on an LED screen since 100% black pixels use no power.
Anyway, problem identified and fixed!
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