It *was* worse when I had errant cvs tags in effect, and so part of the tree was updated differently than the rest, but thats sorted out now.
Since you readily acknowledge having had some errant tagging issues in your tree previously, I would just delete and re-checkout your source tree. At the very least do a ``cvs up -A'' +--------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul%whooppee.com@localhost | | Software Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette%netbsd.org@localhost | +--------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------+