I would do one more test before taking the head off. Make it act up, and as it's sputtering, spray some flammable brake clean in the air intake and see if it trys to run right, to prove it's not a fuel starvation problem. It just seems if it is a valve problem it would skip regularly and not rev up and then slow down and skip.
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