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>>if you didn't completely frob the registry, reinstall should rebuild in place without doing much worse than requiring you to reinstall patches again afterwards.
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>>Please for those of us new to Rauhese, define "frob". ;-)
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>That's random twiddling, which would often result in munging (Mash Until No Good, or better, the self-referential recursive interpretation: Mung Until No Good.)
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>http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/jargon300/frob.html
>http://jargon.net/jargonfile/m/mung.html

I learn something new every day. From the context, I took it to mean f**k up or frag. I can't wait to use it in my next technical writing assignment. :-)