I finally got around to working out the problem today. SUCCESS!! The problem was due to noisy tubes. I had one very noisy tube and one of my spare tubes of the same type, Amperex Jan Green, was also very noisy. Luckily I had a few more good spares and was eventually able to find 6 tubes that were dead quite. Funny thing is I ended up with the same setup I was running before all of this business started up. Amperex Jan Greens up top, Amperex USA Whites in the middle and a pair of Russian Rockets (not sure what they are) in the bottom pair. It was the bottom pair I tried swapping out when all of this started up. I put my Herbie tube dampers back on and I'm back in business.
Thanks to everyone for their interest and help.