Hi, thanks for the quick reply.
Took me a while to get back to this because I had to access from a different location.
Looks like a https vs http issue. I am getting this error in console on a few of the calls. Seems to only happen in html but not aspx with master. Any thoughts? could modify underlying SpServices js I suppose.
The page at 'https://xxx.html'
was loaded over HTTPS, but displayed insecure content from 'http://xxx/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx':
this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.