Thanks @
Jon for putting all the work in to get us this far!
I still think it's unfortunately not clear what Trent's intention was. It's still possible that the pre-emph flag was set in error on the original master. I mean it's a surreal decision to set it at all in 1995. I can't think why they wouldn't have baked the EQ in if that was the desired result. But it's also possible that it was dropped in error on the re-issues, especially since it's more likely that team NIN were less hands-on (or at all involved) when those were produced.
"much too long", "talk too much", "get too far" ; it's still pretty hard to pick out