So real errors, real CRCs and ESs.
However, they can't have happened because of hardware outside the DSLAM <=> CPE-Modem path. The checksums are created and checked in those devices, and not seen outside them.
Your end-end throughput might have suffered from both your CRC issue and from a backhaul issue, leading to a double-whammy effect if they existed simultaneously. But I don't see any other linkage.
At one point above, you describe the DLM profile as "appeared to have reverted back". Did you ever see a profile showing the current banding, followed the reverted one? Or did you just see the " perfect one" and assume it meant you had reverted?
Do you have any TBB BQM graphs from either period? Packet loss would be interesting to see.