More to the story. After some PVRC members noticed their scores weren't in the writeup of the '97 10M contest, we carried on a dialogue with ARRL and were informed that PVRC had, in fact, won the 10M
Several have now pointed out my errors, most in a nice way, one in a sarcastic way (typical of the email/internet genre I suppose, let's call it "email rage")... My message responding to K4OJ's anger