Crap. Brand new house. Wonder why I see them in the *bathroom* where there's no carpets? Rarely see them around any cloth, they're usually just crawling (or dead) on the tile floor or some such.

Glad they're not bedbugs. I had already ruled that out. Housemate once had a bedbug infestation where he lived in Canada, so I'd looked at pics of those already. Scary!

Well, off to google for carpet beetle treatments.

THANK YOU ALL!