My iMac has been officially declared dead by the Univ. of RI Forensic Computing dept... all data unretrieveable. SO, I have to drive back and pick it up tomorrow and hope that I can get Tekserve to install a new HD (luckily still under warranty) by the weekend.

I'm also ordering 2 LaCie 250 gig external HD's for redundant back up. Money I had intended to spend elsewhere, but this is too important...