> I have a reasonably large ffs filesystem (7.4GB, 35,459,874 files) I gues you mean 7.4TB?
I remember (shudder) something similar, where the file server would panic (bad dir), fsck would fix some dirs (missing . or ..), the file server would panic ... rinse and repeat. Slightly short of me performing dump-newfs-restore, the problem disappeared. I never found out what was wrong. I think the general consensus is that ffs can be inconsistent it ways fsck is unable to detect.
