The waters muddy further!  In my quest I surveyed four web sites with guidelines
for EAD tagging. They all differ slightly in their recommendations and examples.

The American Heritage Project's Retrospective Conversion Guidelines (for EAD
beta) show the 'old' way, i.e., a box for every folder, in their "Template (without
tabular layout)". See http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/amher/upguide.html

Harvard/Radcliffe's Guidelines for using the EAD v. 1 gives examples of both
ways at http://findingaids.harvard.edu/dfap/eadguide.html

Research Libraries Group, in their Recommended Application Guidelines for EAD,
Appendix B, Sample Finding Aid, are using the newer way. The box number is
only given once unless the series/subseries changes within a box. Then it is
repeated after the series/subseries <c0X> tag.  See the hyperlink in the Guidelines
at http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/tool2.html

Finally, the Bentley Library's EAD Tag Set (for beta, with notes of v.1 changes)
seems to promote the new way also, although it's not completely clear to me.
http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/EAD/bhltags.htm

All of the above are great resources.  Any comments or clarifications from authors
or users of the above?
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