The only thing I can think of is that you weren't at the right set of forums. The forums that I linked at the beginning of this thread will have most of the posts made until the forums crashed.
Yeah, the only public link is the one I just posted. However, I'll definitely go post in Site Announcements and AtWT over there about it; no harm in it!
I just want to start out by giving mad, huge, INSANE props to Defen. We thought that the information would be irretrievable, but he managed to go in and recover a good bit of it. There may still be the occasional missing user or post or PM, but he managed to recover a lot of what went missing in...