I can't tell you how many dozens of mint transactions I got that were all stale, but after almost six hours of chaos I noticed something....I started minting (successfully).

Here's what I did.....


Nothing.


I was at work while the whole fiacso was going on, so I could do nothing and did not have a chance to try any of the items posted so far before I came home and saw...sweetness.  Seven minted blocks with beautiful green check marks next to them (okay, two had clocks with many confirmations...all above a whole bunch of red question marks).

And I still haven't done anything yet.

It appears that I eventually ended up on the correct chain.  The checkpoint seems to be in order.  It matches the checkpoint posted earlier:

{
"synccheckpoint" : "000000005babbddb5baad7bb9632738ab901b2f9eb3acfd2f390b2f4a97f1eee",
"height" : 463183,
"timestamp" : "2014-06-26 16:46:41 UTC"
}


I might re-start later with some of the posted suggestions (backing up my current AppData first), and we'll see what happens.  But for now.....


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