Need some opinions on where to go from here...

Sounds like you are like me. Not much time so sometimes you may rush. Any chance the excessive leak down test was the last of the session. If that happened to me I would go back to a good cylinder and repeat the test there to make sure my results were repeatable. I mean air could leak before it got in the cylinder, etc.
You're right, I don't have a lot of time these days...BUT I actually won't touch the car unless I know I can carve out the time I need as I don't want to rush anything. When I did the leakdown the first time, I was out there for a couple hours running all the cylinders twice, and cylinder 6 probably 5 or 6 times....longest leakdown testing ever lol