Rich was right!! :)

hm, I saved them out as SAVE FOR WEB this time, and some with VSO image resizer (to compare) and that did the trick!

maybe I saved originals out as straight from Photoshop (Save As), rather than FOR WEB from photoshop, and that did it?
yet they showed standard RGB on inspection

scratches head, puzzled

 

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