Wow, such awesome sleuthing.

I'll see about setting up a Yantzen drive from a PC using Roger's instructions:
http://blog.differentpla.net/blog/2004/03/25/formatting-an-empegs-hard-disk-manually

Mostly for academics; I wouldn't feel safe about keeping the drive, based on some of the things you said about bad data issues on your drive.

Soon, I'll work out how to get write access to the FAQ/Diskupgrade files in their new location and I'll make sure to update the instructions with that information.

Thanks so much!