Turns out 2 things happened several months ago:
1) I screwed up the stripes. They had a "kink" to them, it seems, and I was basing my "steady arc" on a not-so-authentic profile.
2) Skuzz-meister never got the e-mail with the submission.
For whatever reasons, I FINALLY found my photoshop install CD (stupid lousy... it was hiding in a box it shouldn't have been in) and did a bit of work to fix the stripes and I'm going to resubmit it.
The new, improved, stripage!

