ok, well for the first time in my computing history, this solved itself without me having to do anything. Apparently the utility decided to rebuild the array on the fly even though it said the disk was missing. I understand what it did and am glad I didn't do anything rash, though I would have liked to see better documentation for this utility. Anyways, I just thought I'd post the results in case anyone finds this in the future. BTW, you can usually tell if it's rebuilding or not when you turn on the comp and the HDD access light is on solid for 4 hours.
