Sorry I missed this post when it first went up, and thanks for the pictures. They are great. It looks to me like there has been some recent red arrow painting, even though you describe some faded ones, so there must be some local interest in this camino.
I'm sorry to hear the La Fuente albergue is closed, but the one in Cicera looks quite nice -- if I remember correctly, though, the Cicera albergue has a limited season, do you know the dates, Paul?
For me the most frustrating thing about this camino was the incessant asphalt. There are plenty of off-road local trails used by the locals, but the arrows just leave you on the pavement for almost the entire way. I remember having a conversation outside the church in LaFuente with an elderly resident who said it was possible to walk essentially the whole way from San Vicente into LaFuente without going on a road. This is the perennial chicken and egg problem -- few people walk the Lebañiego because of its asphalt-laden route, but the incentive to re-route it isn´t there because there aren´t enough peregrinos! Buen camino, Laurie