Hi Jay,
> Is there anything that can be done at the server end to fix this, or
> at my end to work around it (without having to keep cd'ing into
> subdirectories)?
I use the following from a script:
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -name .svn -prune -o -type d -exec svn
update \{\} \;
Ciao, Duncan.