So at some point one of my sed search/replace routines replaced some things where I didn't intend. But that wasn't fucked up enough. It did it with some sort of special or hidden character that sed could *not* see while I was trying to run a search/replace to *fix* all the stuff I had just botched. After a few hours of banging my head against a brick wall, I finally just did a copy/paste of the string I was searching for. In the terminal. Boom, now sed sees it. FML