Replying to myself because I seem to have found my answer and I hope this info can help someone else.
As it turns out, my ROMs are ok, I was able to dump them both and compare to the rom file I had downloaded.
I had been taking the classic II rom I downloaded from the Macintosh Repository and...
I have a Classic II Rev B I have been working on where I very unfortunately inserted at least one (maybe both) of the ROM chips the wrong way and nuked it. I had not realized the sockets are 42 pin while the chips are 40--- and stupidly put pin 1 in the hole for what I thought was pin 1 not...