Hey Beep.  Happy anniversary! 

Heheh. Thanks, John. Man... this RX2 thing is crazy looking. Oh if only money weren't an object. :-/

Sound forge (and other stereo editors) can do the editing part.  You can just draw in and hence flatten the loud parts.  It is nondiscriminory tho - you flatten the entire signal.  The R-mix thing might be good, too, tho I haven't played w/ it much.

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 Never thought of it, but G-clip is a free clipper with OK sounding softsat. Not sure if it will do the trick for you but cliping it may be all you need.   http://www.gvst.co.uk/gclip.htm

Don't forget the GVST plugins have 64bit native versions too. They reside in the Beta area. The author has been threatening to reorg the site and move those out of the Beta section of the site. Just has not found the time.

Beepster, I have successfully copied a short section of chorus to another section of chorus. Take a clip from a chorus that doesn't clip and lay it in another lane next to the one that clips. Then make extremely short clips that overlap the moment of clipping. I split the main lane and I use very fast fades at the clip ends and set the snap to 0 crossings. It may not do it for you, but it's cleaned up a take for me before that couldn't be re-recorded. Edit: On review this looks pretty similar to GerberBaby's suggestion.

You've come a long way in that year beep.
RX2 is the bomb for this sort of thing. You'll have fun working with the demo.

I have used Sound Forge in the past to draw out the offending crackle spike

Sound Forge's Smooth/Enhance process works well for this.

as mentioned, ive done crazy stuff with isotope RX.
took a 30 year old 4 track recording of vocals and made them sound digitally recorded, they were tape saturated and clipping everywhere.
check out there demo for 10 days as cook said, good luck.