subversion problems - object of the same name already exists

[Geraint]

A couple of weeks ago I checked out trunk successfully to my Linux test server.

Today I came to do an update and have hit on a few snags:

1. Firstly when I did a "svn -u status" I get

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svn: REPORT request failed on 'http://scm.joomla.org/svn/repos/joomla/trunk'
svn: REPORT of 'http://scm.joomla.org/svn/repos/joomla/trunk': 501 Method Not Implemented (http://scm.joomla.org)

2. Then if I do a "svn update" I get files and directories deleted e.g.

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D index.php

or

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D media

followed by:

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svn: Failed to add directory 'media': object of the same name already exists

If I move my local copy and do an update the "deleted" object is successfully obtained from the server.

Any ideas what may be going on?  Is this a windows filename conflict or the like?  Where these files deleted and then added back to the repository?

Geraint