Am I telling on myself if I admit to studying the pictures closely yet I wasn't able to figure out what was wrong until I read the comments.....
-rvb
An update:
I shot the crap out of it.
After a couple hundred rounds, I was kind of amazed that the fuzz built up on the slide didn't all blow away. You could still push it around. I'm gonna "choot it" some more here soon.
.Haven't shot the carry gun lately. Went to take the barrel out to plunk test a new batch of reloads. Duh...