NEVER EVER CLEAN THE DRUM WITH A Q-TIP!
The heads are not encased in epoxy like they are on a cassette deck head. In a video drum, they have a small open space around them -and- they stick out slightly, so a Q-tip can and almost certainly will snag on it, either leaving fibers behind or snapping the fragile and brittle ferrite heads.
You want a special chamois VCR/MiniDV head cleaning stick. It is flat and has a piece of smooth chamois bonded to it. Do NOT just buy a car cleaning chamois, that's like buying a paper towel to clean a lens instead of buying a special lens cleaning cloth.
Those foam lint-free Q-tip type swabs are NOT good enough for the video drum, either. The foam can still snag on the heads.
Otherwise, good info. Cleaning tapes should never be rewound and re-used more than a few times. You should only be playing them 10 seconds at a time, so that's a lot of cleaning.
Here is a good link with more info than you probably can absorb:
http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_vcrfaq...