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that perhaps House was playing the school principal

Yep, I'm definitely fanwanking that and I don't care if Mr. "Whatever It Takes" Moran intended it that way or not. :-)
He must have seen the family picture behind her, and the last time he said "I love her" in front of someone else, he was playing Lucas. It was very clear that he was still trying to get Rachel in there and - in his own words - "dig himself out of a hole".

in that the parts with House's team [...] came across as more real to me than the problem with Cuddy

I was wondering if that might have something to do with the fact that House was the (unreliable) narrator here? His own confusion and reluctance colouring the story? The backwards/disordered structure didn't help either.
On the other hand, I have to admit that Cuddy's anger was one of the few things that did work for me in this episode. Found that more understandable than her reaction to his lie in "Office Politics" for example.