This is EXACTLY what I was looking for!  I could not find how to do this.  I must educate myself better but don't seem to find an easy way to do that :-(  Maybe SQL is too ingrained in my blood and this learning requires different skills -- teaching an old dog new tricks ain't easy.

Okay, so  it seems like I had some demigod, titan, location, god, human, and monster vertices that I don't remember adding.

Now on the person vertices I get a min of 1 and a max of 8491, and I know I have a unique index on it.  But it still shows 8492.  This phantom is really strange.  I thought I would try to put it into a log file, pull it into Excel and figure out there what is going on.  I am wondering whether it is using an index which somehow got corrupted.  As you may have seen, I have an index that is in a strange state of INSTALLED that I cannot REINDEX or REMOVE.

Anyway, thanks for this.  This is good progress.

Rohit