Thanks to all for the rapid responses....basically, took a little from a number of them and cobbled together a solution....everything is back to normal...
Thanks to both for the reply....I have one more question....will 'master' update itself if I manually delete in SMS or do I have to delete using a query(tho I think...
Carlton...thanks for reply...query does indeed list everything (all 509 objects) added...the question remains as to how do I get rid of them in some reasonable fashion...for me time is not...