Success, fireworker!!! The BR 14 Free "Restore from VD Wizard" was a little flaky, but eventually worked and restored the full disk. The wizard presents three Restore types as options, the first of which, Restore to original location, complained that "Partitions structure differs from archive." So I <Backed out and tried the other two options, Selective restore and Restore single participation, both of which also failed. Suspecting that using <Back to get out of an option wasn't completely resetting the environment, I exited the Wizard, restarted it, then tried the Selective restore option again. That worked flawlessly, as did applying my latest incremental backup.

Thanks very much for hangin' in there with me, and for all the coaching. I owe you, and will be in touch via PM.