I felt pretty confident that i put the cages back in the right way. Although you have me wondering now. I went by the diagram in the Jim Langley maintenance book with the exposed ball side facing outward into the cups. I'm going to take it back apart and reinspect it. I just thought of something that hadn't occurred to me before. I'm using the same caged barrings. They looked perfectly fine. However, I've read that free bearings should always be replaced because they will settle into one place and become slightly out-of-round. I suppose that would be true for caged bearings as well. I read the article by Sheldon that you linked. It was helpful. My adjuster cup rotates slightly when the lockring is tightened. I tried holding it with a pin spanner and read that Sheldon advises against that. He suggests using the "Kentucky windage" method, which I assume he means to try and judge how much the cup rotates when the lockring is tightened down and keep playing with it until it feels right. I did read something else surprising in his article. He said that if it is a decision between too tight and too loose, to error on the side of too loose, which is the opposite that is stated in Langley's book.