Woot! ERD Commander came through!
I still had it on my old computer... I'd never burned the IOS. SO I burned it off and booted it. Since I had no idea what I was doing with it, I tried about everything. I finally worked my way down to SYstem Restore, and went back about three days (before I tried IE&... yet another reason to despise IE).
Well, it worked! Thanks, Eric, for pointing me in the right direction. And thank you, mi amigo, for sending me ERD Commander.
Now I can go to bed and get some sleep... worked last night and I'm beat.