when zapwallettxes=1 doesn't work, I will sometimes do zapwallettxes=2
not related to biblepay, but I was able to recover lost funds using =2 on a different altcoin, so it has its place when a reindex fails.
Glad to hear 1183 was a dud because I was about to pull my hair out (what little I have left of it).
Let me try to explain what an orphaned wallet transaction is.
If you have a "?" in the wallet, it means you received the transaction, the chain reorganized and your txlist still displays it as a row in the transaction list.
zapwallettxes=1 removes those orphaned entries. Those are the only relevant types of transactions we are dealing with here between mandatory upgrades (because people are on a fork between mandatory upgrades).
It looks like option =2 deletes the addressbook data. Thats not a good idea as then you will lose your labels, and besides, the space in the wallet.dat file for labels is small.
Neither of those 2 recovery tools will make you lose coin-age. You only lose coin-age when you spend the coins.
On the "dud" and pulling your hair out, I hope you aren't implying that these upgrades are causing you personal problems - because in reality we've done a lot in a short period of time and are almost finished in creating a new mining algorithm. HAHA, I get it, you are joking! LOL.