How to break out of error loop in transactional replication?

Question

I was running some simple tests on a publisher and subscriber on the same instance:

1. I inserted 50,000 rows into a published article and the data was correctly pushed to the subscriber.
2. I inadvertently deleted the 49,985th record on the subscriber (but didn't realize it at the time)
3. I deleted 50,000 rows from the published article

As I was watching the size of the subscriber table, I noticed it would drop down in row count almost to zero and then go back to 50,000. Deletes would start running again, the row count would drop, and then it back to 50,000. This kept happening over and over.

I ran a standard trace and saw all the deletes running normally. After it was almost complete, this statement appeared:

IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK 

Then I modified the trace to incude error messages and saw this:

The row was not found at the Subscriber when applying the replicated command.

So it looks like when the distribution agent is executing all the deletes one-by-one, the process is still included in a transaction (the original DELETE was one line). If there is an error, it performs a ROLLBACK and then starts over.

My questions:

1. Is there a standard way to break out of the loop?
2. Would it be acceptable to recreate the missing row so the process can complete?
3. What do you do if this happens on production? I guess that's not really a question. But this seems like a simple error could have some pretty serious complications unless replication is monitored very carefully.