Jeff
A .cvsignore file is your friend. Just pop one of these little beauties into the root of your service dir and stick the following in it:
apm-workspace
content-repository-content-files
database-backup
etc
log
.*
And cvs will ignore those directories (and files starting '.')
If the directories are already known to CVS you may have to make it forget first - probably removing the CVS directories would do it.
Steve