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Turns out my agent just hates showing properties, especially since he knows (As well as I know) that 99% of the bank owned properties were not taken care of and are in disarray. It depresses him. I can't help but relate to that.
So I adjusted my strategy to stop looking at short sales (since the bank was always non-responsive) even though they were the best kept properties...and focus my search on bank owned in the San Diego County.
Noticing that Oceanside seems to be imploding finally, I decided to look there and found one that I put an offer in. The proposal was countered, we countered back and the bank accepted our counter in writing. Just sent that back today and waiting on the bank to sign off. They're a local outfit so the list agent and my agent are hoping the bank will sign today rather than wait for the holiday.
Once we got an initial response from the bank, my agent kicked it into high gear. He's called me regularly to give me status updates and advise me accordingly, worked to get paperwork back and forth between me and the bank, even came up to my work to walk through the paperwork so I didn't have to drive down to the office (I think he was happy to get out of there anyway...my office is air conditioned, his isn't).
I guess the "contract to close" logic is true, but agents don't want to do the stuff that comes before that phase - the actual home showing process. Most agents, anyway.
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