I have finally found a way to kill a file with a name ending in a dot. This particular file has been jamming up all sorts of activity. Specifically today it was stopping me creating a wim from that drive even though I specified the directory containing the poisoned file in the imagex exclusion list.
The answer is here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4075753/how-to-delete-a-folder-that-name-ended-with-a-dot
It finally worked from the command line under win 7 on a poison file inside a vhd that had been sent in a mangled zip file by a student from a mac that had proven undeletable by all sorts of other means.
The fix links back to the following kb article http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320081
Now I just have to erradicate the same file from the clones of the VHD, origional drive, backups and any other places it has migrated.... arg!
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