Right now would be a good time to try touching up your razor - if it gets better good, you can experiment some more, if it gets worse you continue with the original plan to send it to Lynn.

As everybody tells you, you need to figure out the stropping. First I'd sand the strop so that the cuts are smoothed if you haven't done that already.
Then you may want to place the strop on a hard surface, like along the edge of a table/countertop so that keeping it flat is one less thing to worry about. Take a look at Alan's stropping videos in the Library - he demonstrating it with a paddle strop.