Very interesting.

As an experienced DBA...were you jotting notes along the way as you stepped (er, fumbled) your way through this fix?

How long did the entire scenario take to get the DB back up and running again?

What non-BOL resources did you use to help solve the issue?

I'm alway interested in these additional details because I often see impatience with staff waiting for a fix to complete...they wonder if it is working properly and want to cancel and try something else. Very often, this impatience leads to more/worse problems than the original problem itself.