Thanks, Matthew, but the problem isn’t the (…). It’s that the archive pages are showing the wrong excerpt. Instead of showing the manual excerpt that I’ve entered in each post’s Excerpt field, it’s creating an automatic excerpt using the first 55 words of the post itself. My understanding was that the_excerpt FIRST looks for whether a post has an excerpt in the Excerpt field; if it doesn’t, THEN it creates one automatically from the post. So … it doesn’t seem to be looking first for my manually created excerpts for each post.