Well, your suggestion helped me a lot more than I thought it might when I saw it initially. Basically, I just went in, pulled up a typical chapter and did a search for:
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This is the common code between two typical paragraphs. I found 230 occurrences. I replaced them all with:
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I fixed the first and last paragraphs by hand and that pretty much took care of the worst of it. There'll be some more tweaking and cleaning to get it just right and I'm sure a few things may get messed up but this will take care of the bulk of my problems a lot faster than I was worried it might take me.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
- Byron