Thanks again to all for the advice, explanation, and I guess the scolding is okay as well.
I would like to offer this one little rebuttal: My book with the manual TOC is validated and approved and currently available on iTunes. So the absolute statement "Apple will reject any ePUB that has an internal, redundant toc such as you have made" is incorrect.
That said, you've convinced me to remove it. Now I just have to figure out how to do it.
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