Just for comparison, here's what this plate looked like that I actually ordered:
The place that actually made this thing is located in Spring Hill, FL, (
http://www.americanhydrocarbon.com/) so I sent them off an email to ask them about this. The pic on their own webpage
Looks better, too, than what I actually got.
Notice that the mesh goes from left to right and top to bottom, not at all like what I got. So I'll see what they say about this. Probably will be something along the lines of "Gee, we've never had anyone else complain about this."
Yeah, I'm picky about stuff like this, so don't pull some switcheroo on me thinking I won't notice.