Thanks for all your responses on this.  It would appear that as I
suspected, rebuilt is a pretty vague term these days.  Funny the guy that
originally rebuilt/broke my starter was a version of Seinfeld's soup Nazi.
You pretty much walked in, handed over the starter, took two steps to the
right and bowed out.  I made the mistake of mentioning this forum and
nearly got kicked out as he apparently had a large issue with web knowledge
(or in his case, perceived lack of it) He came recommended from the import
specialist shop that does the work I'm too lazy to perform.  Hindsight
being what it is, I would have just replaced it with an IMI unit from the
onset.  I'll be pulling the unit out for the fourth time shortly to see
what the local Bosch shop can do with it.  My thinking is that any way you
slice it, I'm out another few hundred either way.