Could ckpool be redirecting my hashing power elsewhere while giving me artificial stats or is something wrong with the pool reporting?
Yes he could, but then he woud just display a proper hashrate graph to you and you won't notice shit, however, ck pool mined thousends of blocks and the person behind it is very well trusted, they won't won't be stealing your hashrate.
Anyway, there was an issue with the status page due to overwhelming amount of hashrate directed at the pool, ck mentioned that in the pool's thread.