At the risk of being annoying, ah, I have been reading the axe dater here(thanks for including that, it's great) and have found that my ProTone is a S/N 6........ and if I have read the info correctly, that makes this a Samick made in Korea in '96.
I bought it in '98, September, no wonder I got a deal on it, I guess they wanted to move that guitar.
The Affinity Tele is a YN7...... China '97 bought again in '98, same store.
Thanks for this great site Nocaster, and for putting up with me.