http://forums.mbworld.org/ here's the rather unplesant and unfortunate story about what happened: http://forums.mbworld.org/forums/announcement.php?s=&forumid=52 doody.
Thanks, doody. BTW, are you an M-B fan? Which car do you have? While an F-car fanatic at heart, my daily driver is a C-Class and I'm a big fan of the Stuttgart sedans.
That's scarry! I have automated weekly offsite backups, daily onsite backups, and will start doing manual SQL dumps.