Universe, Please Throw Us a Lifeline

I am convinced that the the one quality that distinguishes filmmakers who get their films made from the ones who don't is the ability to withstand days when you just want to repeatedly bang your head against a wall until you don't feel the pain anymore.  I just talked with a guy at a post house who said that he can fix our frame rate problems, but it will cost more than what we budgeted for editing.  Mind you, this is not the amount to edit, it's to fix the f--- up footage that we have so that our editor can start editing.  And this is the friends and family discounted rate.  The alternative is to just drop the footage into the timeline and render it, but it will take much longer to render (thus, prolonging the amount of time our editor needs to spend on editing, thus increasing the cost of editing).  Also, there would be a question of the consistency of the image, i.e., quality.  If I didn't think that my landlord would charge me for a bloodied wall from banging my head against it, I would.