For closure: Howard sent me his input data offline. With this more extensive set of input data, I was able to see more clearly what he was trying to do. He had non-duplicate records in his input file, which I hadn't realized from the smaller input sample. That meant he needed to use LAST instead of LASTDUP. LASTDUP only gives you the last record of each set of duplicates. LAST gives you the last record of each set of duplicates AND the non-duplicate records. This gave Howard the output he wanted.
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