That's the missing info I needed to fix the problem. There was a call in the sender that was being run when it shouldn't have in dry- run mode. The latest dev version (git, nightly, etc.) has this fixed.
And it looks like all the problems I was having are now resolved. Many thanks to all!
(I am now using the latest flags.diff, crtimes.diff and backup-dir- dels.diff from /ftp/rsync/patches - however I find I still need to change some instances of '--flags' to '--fileflags' in the former!)
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