I decided to clean out my slave drive (10.1.5) and copy over my primary (10.2.6) to it. I used carbon Copy Cloner from the days of 10.1.5 and started the transfer. It hung at 'Desktop DB' for 3 hours.
I stopped the process and dl'd the latest copy of CCC and began again. This time it made it 3/4 of the way to 'private' and hung again.
As you can imagine, by this time I was becoming rather frustrated. I remembered the app DejaVu being mentioned earlier on TS so I trashed all aspects of CCC and downloaded DV.
I fired it up and being as how it was 1:00 am by this time, I went to bed. Up and shinning at 6:00 am and lo and behold I had a brand new bootable and fully functional 10.2.6 on the slave drive.
TS to the rescue again. Thanks folks!