Hi Frederick,

re:
> I was wondering if there was a way to replace all the "defective" components with a
> corrected one - some sort of "find and replace" command.

Sorry no, nothing really like that currently. That's something that an "instancing" mechanism will be good for but MoI doesn't have that function in it as of yet.

For now you would just need to use Transform > Copy to place 8 corrected objects.

- Michael