whoo. just got my kobe printing plate, a card from the '98-99 fleer brilliants set. nice-looking card, although it isn't listed in any set. a few people say it's from the fleer bankruptcy auctions. if that's true, then it's even rarer than your standard 1/1's. plus, it's a third year kobe. awesome. 'nuff said.
Yeah the unstickered plates are a bit of an enigma, I have a few myself and cannot decide if they are real or not. The only real way would be to send them off to someone like Beckett. Real or not I hope you did not get gouged too badly on it!