Oh my; that would never have occurred to me. I haven't looked at the vids outside of Media Player Classic yet, but I have no doubt you are correct about this, because indeed, in order to make certain I selected the same frame for comparison/screenshot, I opened two incidences of MPC!
Sorry for the bandwidth!
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I guess at least I can take some solace re: how my original post was "wrong"--I simply opened in a different sequence each time.