Hi Matt,
A few thoughts:
I think this is probably the right family and I think Daisy has found the right christening for Rebecca in 1671. It seems there is no father named on her christening but the date fits with the marriage you found for Robert Lovadge and Rebecca Ratcliffe.
Regarding this comment, I don't think the transcription implies that there was no father named, just that the father's name is illegible. This could be for several reasons: smudging, fading, stains or rips and tears in the paper. The fact that the child's name is also not transcribed makes me think that the page is rather seriously damaged.
Robertus Lovedge - christened 22 September 1644 Welford, Berkshire
Father - Robert Lovedge.
This is very possible, but I personally don't feel there is currently enough to support this (or contradict it; just not enough evidence either way). If I were you, I would perhaps add it to my tree with an asterisk indicating that it is currently just a hypothesis.
The issue here is essentially the same as I mentioned above in that we cannot see the images of the register, so we have no way of knowing what is missing/illegible/incorrectly transcribed. I am not sure when or if the Berkshire Record Office will ever get round to digitising parish registers and wills, and I am in the same boat as you hoping that they eventually will.
I suppose a lot of genealogy is a waiting game, hoping that more will become available to help us with our research.
Queenie 
Good points and yes I agree sometimes genealogy is a waiting game. Sometimes I find it is also case of looking at all possible threads and working out the impossible. After all "once you elimate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth".
At the moment it's a lead but that's all I think. It's definitely a possibility but there's more digging to do.
Matt
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