I wanted the list to know that I resolved this issue. My problem related to my poor understanding of sockets (but I'm learning). I didn't realize that reading from a socket is destructive. That is (apparently) once the data is read from the socket, it is gone. In a backhanded sort of way, that is what was causing my problem. Thanks.
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