Something was hosed up. The network was throwing busy errors continuously and the repair wasn't really getting anywhere.
I did a full shutdown, unplugged it, then powered back up a bit later.
Now, it seems to be doing better. No busy messages--and, the "repair" is behaving really nicely. It's skipping all the battery gizmos (at least so far) and getting the rest chatting. We'll see--hopefully this will result in a lot more stable mesh.
