Which suggests a corrupt database (design object or view) and I believe that to be true (since boss is complaining about his 7.5 GB mail file not replicating and no mail on BlackBerry) but I wanted to see if anyone had other ideas before performing the proscribed actions.
Subject: RE: nupdate.exe has terminated abnormally
Thanks for your input, we did perform the holy trinity (compact, fixup, updall) and were able to get a functional database (and while db was offline did not have the error) back to the server.