Hey Yanbu,
any luck with the drive?
If you want, I can pull the data off of the drive for you (but you;d have to ship it to me).. should only take me a few hours.. I can put an image of the entire drive on a dvd (or dvd's), along with the ghost image explorer app. I could also extract the website's data and drop it on a disc too (so you would just have to upload it to the new harddrive)
lemme know if you want me to do this and I'll send you my address.

hey gerold - i will have an update on the situation in a few hours! hopefully something positive. . . i helped setup lipps' paintings at a gallery here in town yesterday and was there tonight for the opening, time has been limited since i got the drive - hopefully tonight will be tha nite. i f***ing hate learning how to deal with this file format, it's not straightford - windows does not like

and i do appreciate the offer and will take you up on if all fails - thank you