What an amazing conversation. In the end, I am doing exactly what Doitsu and Hitch recommend, except that I leave the cover in place when I upload to the KDP. That works nearly every time, and when it fails, I fix it. I'd rather not maintain different epubs for the KDP and the others.
Though I am still puzzled at the notion that I apply a semantic to an image in the Images folder, as opposed to the xhtml file containing it. (And no, Hitch, you never, never told me any such thing.) But in fact I have never applied a "cover" semantic to the xhtml file, because it's already so labeled.
Of course my technical skills pale beside yours. That's precisely why I'm qualified to write a guidebook. It's not engineers who write tech manuals, not in successful companies.
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