You should go check that you created the zone correctly in dns.he.net if that is what you used in order to list HE name servers.
This was it! It's working fine now. I was originally using the godaddy name servers, but changed over to HE after finding out that godaddy doesn't support reverse DNS. Thought I had already added the AAAA record under dns.he.net, but apparently not, as I discovered when I double-checked today... This is what I get for trying to set this up at 1:00am, with insufficient quantities of caffeine 
Thanks for the extra set of eyes and for putting up with a noob...
