>There may be a better and quicker way, but in a case like this I 
>would do a clean checkout. It takes a few hours, but at least you 
>can be sure everything is as it should be.

How do I do that?

My fear is as my local tree continually self-explodes, I am going 
to end up cloninge the entire tree, which at 4 or 5 GBs will take 
all damn day.

There must be some kind of repair procedure?

Darrell