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Obama was not elected on election day; various slates of Democratic-party electors were.

That's true, but, the general election and the democratic primaries would have been conducted under false pretenses by someone who wasn't qualified.

Therefore, the whole election season would have to be declared as invalid.

If Obama had been found ineligible from the beginning, it's likely that either Hillary or some other democrat would've been running in the general election. And, given that a candidate other than Obama would've been running, what are the chances that perhaps even the republicans would've gone in a different direction from McCain?

Remember that people oftentimes make choices for candidates depending upon that candidates chances against a particular opposition candidate. In McCain's case, the primary battles on the republican side ended way before the primaries for the democrats. But, Obama and Hillary loomed as the two most likely candidates. If Obama had been removed, it's likely that Hillary and somebody else would've battled till at least March or April.

Without Obama there, who knows in which direction the republicans would've argued for a different candidate than McCain?

Furthermore, without Obama as the democrats' candidate, the black vote would not have voted in the same numbers as they did for him, and perhaps not even the Hispanics. There's no telling how much the women's vote would've been affected by a different candidate. And, the feeling that "it's about time we elected a black president" would not have affected the election as much as it did.

All of your points are speculation. Courts do not deal in speculation. There is no constitutional authority for redoing an election. There is a process for dealing with a situation where a candidate becomes ineligible, The EC simply casts its vote for another candidate. Presidents are elected to office by the Electoral college, not by the people of the United States. We need no more proof of this than George W. Bush, who was elected by the Electoral College even though he received less votes than the other candidate.

Isn’t it also true that if Obama was unqualified for the presidency by virtue of not being a native-born American, then the electors assigned him were assigned under a fraud. I would think that all those electors would be disqualified. I’ve have seen no posts challenging the electors involved in a fraudulent scheme. It doesn’t make sense that they should then have carte blanche to vote for whomever if their election was based on a fraud. Is there some precedent?