thanks so much for the reply. for the benefit of future googlers i was finally able to mount the card using a card reader and an adapter (from microSD to standard SD) that i had laying around.
i then ran
chkdsk /f e:
where e: is the drive corresponding to the SD card. despite a few errors, i grabbed the DCIM folder off of the card and copied it to my PC. most of the files went nicely, but a few of them i had to leave behind to wallow in their own misery.
that backed up all of the photos and videos. at that point, my wifey was bothering me about going christmas shopping and, of course, i'm not going to the mall without my 'droid so i reinstalled the card and then reformatted. so far so good, but it's only been a few hours. all of the apps i wanted to use were still working.
thanks much, hope this helps the future travelers who run into this bug.
mike
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