I had purged all nautilus and dropbox stuff and finally reinstalled nautilus. It took a few tries, but I think I finally got everything and.... I am missing the Connect to Server entry under Places. I wasn't expecting that. But I seem to have Nautilus back.
@ajgreeny: Excellent idea. I have all sorts of stuff in there that I don't need and could cause conflicts; caja, mate, metactiy, muffin, etc I guess I wasn't as thorough about undoing my little DE trials as I should have been.
I got the Connect to Servers under Places back after replacing the stock Nautilus with
Nautilus-1:3.8.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu1~ppa13.10+2
from https://launchpad.net/~zdra/+archive/nautilus-3.4
I'm very happy with that.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zdra/nautilus-3.4
sudo apt-get update
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