Thanks for reading and all help is appreciated. Has anyone ran into this situation and is there a fix ? Out of the thousands of images that I have used this trick on, these are the first I have ran into that insist on not cooperating. I opened one of the images on a different machine and the problem was still there. I have deleted preferences and restarted the machine = no change. In the levels dialogue, there will be three lines when this works, the three lines merge into a single line as it is now, the left and center lines will merge together, but the right line insists on staying astray. No matter what I try, there is always that green cast. Now here is the weird part, always before, on images with a lot worse cast than these, once I click the grey eyedropper on the orange image and it turns green instead of grey, the lines in the levels dialogue do not come together as a single line. We have used the Filter>Blur>Average Levels and Grey Eyedropper trick on countless images and have never ran into this before the duplicate layer with Filter>Blur>Average is dark orange click on this solid orange and, instead of the window turning grey, it turns a very obvious green.
The floor is a very orangish color and everything in the pictures has a heavy orange cast.
My wife took a bunch of photos in a big old hardwood-floored gymnasium with some really weird lighting.