I'm still working at it...the rope I had has an extra end, so I started on splice #4.
I have yet to really apply force (I used my secondary 18X winch) to pull this one home, but I did milk the core down pretty well. The core tail is going away better than my 3rd splice, but not completely, and (I think) not as quickly as it did on my first two splices. I decided to take a break before I figured out if it was really messed up or not, and it was too late to fix it either way...so here is a picture in-progress.
