Got notified again and since I hadn't slept yet, was still logged in with some ideas of what was causing issues.
H1 got stuck at input align and a quick looksy through the alog found this parcel of frustration from TJ's alog 86095. Using the wiki and following this, I found that indeed:
IM's did not quite restore to an aligned state post EQ so I trended back OSEMs and moved sliders:
This worked!
But as then I couldn't lock SRY, so I moved SRM a bit in order to maximize AS_A centering peaks!
This also worked!
Back to LOCKING