Third time is the charm! I once again copied the original and did nothing but apply the modify epub (utf-8 encoding), as jackie_w suggested. It worked!! Thank you, jackie_w. In this case, it accomplished the shortcut to Jon's suggestion.
@Ripplinger - I originally performed an epub-epub conversion as I mentioned above which did not work for some reason. The utf-8 encoding was indeed the issue -- I just wasn't initially able to get it to stick for some reason.
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