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MS Project 2010 Baseline manipulation needed

We have a project which did not get baselined at the appropriate time, but did get an interim plan saved around the right time and also had "Baseline4" saved at nearly the same time. I discovered the trick of being able to save from one baseline or interim set to another and actually manually pasted some values into the fields in the "Baseline0" set, but the project statistics will not show these values.

Is there any way to get MSP to recalculate the dates and other stats for the Baseline0 plan so that it displays correctly in the stats window, reports, etc.?
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As is consistent with some of the assessment and feedback here, the effort to populate Baseline0 in a way that would not invalidate the roll up calcs or existing data is excessive, so I'm just pasting in some values in the summaries and tasks which really need them and using the option of selection a different BaselineN for EVM calcs to compare going forward. I appreciate everyone's perspective on this.
Definitely some lessons learned about what can and cannot be done to modify the baseline after the fact. The comments about policy and protocol aren't technically relevant, but hopefully they'll be a good reminder to others who read this in the future. I am a PMP and know very well the hazards of major replanning after baselining (or starting work without setting it and having sponsor agreement. Unfortunately, I was not sitting in the room when this process started. I just got to try to clean up the mess!