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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