I removed a catalog backup tape by mistake on Friday. I came in today,
and noticed that NO backups were run for the entire weekend because that
tape wasn't in the juke. 

Sure, it was user error. My bad. But doesn't this sound a bit severe?
You'ld think there would be logic in the code that says, 'if cat tape #2
is not available, write to cat tape #1'. 

Is there something I could set as a flag that would do that?

-dd