I don't know then. I know pumice always dispelled 2 slots and that dispels should not be resistable. Can't think of anything that the numbers in parantheses would be for. A level modifier shouldn't matter, there was no variance to the dispel mechanic. Stuff like Nagafen's AoE dispel also has the Cancel Magic (9) thingy, for instance.
Back on SZ during Luclin and PoP, one of my friends played an enchanter. He used the low-level dispel a lot in PvP because it was useful for dispelling Winged Death (there were retarded amounts of mid-50s druids to fight when you were evil) because it only dispelled one slot. He didn't have any insta-clickies so he had to junk buff with actual spells, and the 1-slot dispel was useful for preserving those buffs while dispelling the first slot.
The only comment on Allakhazam for Taper Enchantment mentions that it reduces the duration of whatever buff it hits. It's from November 2003, during LDoN, which sounds like about the time they changed a number of PvP mechanics. It's possible that this particular spell did work like that (though well enough to counter WD effectively) but I'm sure the other dispels were actual dispels. I have no recollection of ever seeing pumice fail to dispel two buffs/debuffs.
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