I downloaded the newest wallet and erased everything in the app / roaming folder except for the wallet.dat
The wallet began to sync almost immediately and fully synced pretty quick.
I see a bunch of my mined coins are unconfirmed and showing 'conflicted' in transaction history. Yet another bunch of mined coins are just fine. Same address and same pool.
And...I'm lost from here. Thanks in advance.
If you run the wallet with -salvagewallet all those conflicted will be removed.

backup your wallet prior
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