As no one has responded, I'll report the results of my testing: most of this appears to just be how Kindles work now, presumably due to their respecting fields like set-as in the dc:creator tags or the like. Even when loaded directly from Amazon and not through Calibre, they sort by "last, first"; multiple authors no longer need a plugboard; I think the problem with books that loaded incorrectly is just that they aren't properly formatted ebooks, so a convert fixes it.
I am still investigating the ordering-of-authors thing, but I suspect that's a function of my fiddling. We'll see what happens when one of those gets straight loaded.
All well!
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