Well, my friend - more adventures. This time, the macro caused PowerPoint to crash entirely. I'm certain your code is efficient and accurate - it's this horrible network that I'm on here at work that's causing the issues. When I tried to run it again, I got this message:
error on copy paste CPAT9.JPG

As long as I close out of all other applications and turn off the error handling snippets that you included, I can use your code without issue. It does exactly what I'd hoped it would, and now I'm tweaking things here and there, based on what mgmt wants. All in all, you've gone above and beyond anything I expected and I thank you for that. Your script will have a HUGE positive impact on the efficiency of my entire group.