Revert to previous Keychain with Time Machine, or reset completely?

Is it possible to revert to a backup of my Keychain?
If not, how can I reset me keychain completely?  (clear out everything and start from scratch)
I have a very old keychain that's been synced over the years to .Mac/mobileme and was a bit cluttered with old entries.  I recently went through and removed some network passwords for computers I don't have anymore, WiFi networks I'll never use again and removed what appeared to be some duplicates of other network passwords.  I figured at the time if they were something I needed I would simply be prompted for them again and I could click the remember in my keychain checkbox.  Apparently I've caused a problem...
I use a folder of location files that will open VNC sessions with my various computers (basically they're just bookmarks to vnc://computername.local, or vnc://ipaddress:port for when I'm not at home), and for the last year or so they've worked great.  After removing the items in keychain, I'm now often asked to provide a password in order to open the VNC connection.  I enter the password, and it will just sit there and spin with "connecting" displayed forever.  I can't get rid of that window now unless I log out.  Meanwhile I can still open a finder window, select the same computer in the sidebar, wait for it to say I'm connected, hit share screen and the VNC session will fire up just fine.  The original stuck connecting window still sits there spinning, endlessly.
I tried Keychain First Aid but it found nothing wrong.
Thanks

The default keychain is ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (The Library in your home folder). You can use Time Machine to replace login.keychain.

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