I'm still not certain what happened, but it appears that for some reason Ctrl+Shift+drag didn't result in a shortcut to the networked folder, it made a copy of the folder, but with the icon of a shortcut folder. Still, I have no idea where the files went.

So I did it the long way, right-clicking and typing out the network name of the folder, and that created a shortcut as desired.
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Matt