Bottom bracket help!

Success! 2 days of serious lubing does it. Anti clockwise also, so that's
the same way as the lock ring. Odd.

Think about it! not odd at all. It can't be any other way. The lock ring must be the same type of thread as the frame, ergo whichever way the lockring unlocks so does the cup.

I thought the whole point of a lockring was to go in the op direction so it
doesn't undo, like fixed hubs, non.