Loadbalancer always worked flawlessly for me also. This is the first time I've had a problem with it. After the dist-upgrade completed, I looked again at the "Noodles" mirror and "Archive-Update-in-Progress" line was gone, so, I switched the repos back under debian.list and apt-get update ran successfully. You were probably right, michaa7, it probably was an incomplete sync that was the problem. I guess the admin finally noticed.
Thanks again for the help.