Gavin Andresen - 2010-08-15 20:39:42

Until there is a better fix... after a very small amount of testing this seems to work:
Code:
--- a/main.h
+++ b/main.h
@@ -473,8 +473,12 @@ public:
 
         // Check for negative values
         foreach(const CTxOut& txout, vout)
+ {
             if (txout.nValue < 0)
                 return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue negative");
+ if (txout.nValue > 21000000*COIN)
+ return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue over-max");
+ }
 
         if (IsCoinBase())
         {
@@ -520,6 +524,8 @@ public:
         int64 nValueOut = 0;
         foreach(const CTxOut& txout, vout)
         {
+ if (txout.nValue > 21000000*COIN)
+ continue; // ignore over-max-value...
             if (txout.nValue < 0)
                 throw runtime_error("CTransaction::GetValueOut() : negative value");
             nValueOut += txout.nValue;

You'll need to re-download the part of the block chain before the bad block-- remove the blkindex.dat and blk0001.dat files.   I started with knightmb's blockchain snapshot.