Heh, yeah, it really does suck. The worst part is that I planned on getting a new 1.5TB hard drive and backing up my entire system over the weekend, so now it really feels like a kick in the teeth. I have an older backup of my system, but it's missing all of the pictures from the first year of my son's life, which are kinda important to me as I'm sure you can imagine. I'm hoping I can replace the PCB and be good to go, but I have a feeling that the heads went bad, so I may have to look into a reliable recovery service that has no-interest financing. I'm super paranoid about them copying extremely personal/sensitive material, but I don't have the proper materials or environment, so I might just have to suck it up. Instead of getting Christmas presents, I'll probably just ask everyone to help pitch in for my hard drive recovery, which is a shame 'cause I was finally going to upgrade my dinosaur of a PC (which is why I want that video card).
ANYWAY, sorry about the mini-rant. Although this is super-duper important to me and will require most of my money, I'm still gunning for a few items 'cause there's some stuff here that I "need" for my collection.