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Is cost an issue? An active repeater cable will probably yield best results. My theory on adding a hub to the end(dont know if its true, but makes logical sense to me): Adding a hub to the end might actually make it worse, as there may be more information being transfered (more devices can be connected). All this information presents a greater opportunity for interference and may degrade the quality of the individual signals.
In summary, adding a hub to the end will either not change how much data loss you get, or increase data loss. If you are already losing data from a long usb cable, a hub wont make it better because the data is already lost once it reaches the hub. The only benefit I see to adding a hub at the end is that you can add more devices close to the driver, as well as boosting the usb voltage. But dont think data loss is a bad thing. Data is lost all the time (usb, internet)...but your hardware and software error correction will take care of that. Lost information will just be sent again.
Before you spend all your money into getting a repeater or a hub...maybe you should first try running the passive cable first. At ~6 meters (22 foot), you probably will be getting more data loss (especially if its unsheilded) vs running a normal usb cable. But other than slowing down the rate of data transfer, you probably wont notice anything due to error correction.
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