How can I remove incorrect svn:special property?

Ok, somehow one of my users has a file with the svn:special property set
to "*",
but the file isn't a link. (It *was* a link that they replaced with the
file
contents and somehow the svn:special property stuck around.) I haven't
been able to reproduce this on unix yet, so it may have been a combo
of Unix and Windows...

Anyway, how can you remove that property? A checkout of the directory
results in an error about "'file.txt' has unsupported special file type".

And you can't "svn propdel URL" with the 1.4 version of Subversion,
and my snapshot 1.5 client from 02/14 says "needs a base revision",
but if I specify a revision with -r it says "Cannot specify revision
for setting versioned property 'svn:special'".

What is the syntax for the 1.5 client to do remote propset/propdel?

  svn propdel svn:special http://myserver/path/to/file.txt

NOTE: (The user(s) were using 1.4.x versions of Subversion. I
       just tried a snapshot of 1.5 since it is supposed to support
       some of these remote operations on properties.)

Any solution other than remotely delete the file and re-add it as a
normal file?

Kevin R.

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