I'm impressed -- I don't usually get responses that fast even when I'm paying for support. Thanks all.

The pins on the ethernet port didn't appear bent when I looked this afternoon. I decided to use a little light screwdriver pressure to make sure. Now they are definitely bent. I suppose I'll be emailing the eutronix folks to see if they'd be willing to troubleshoot and repair it. Cloning empeg disks with dd is for the birds.