It looks like the server crash corrupted the files and even the backup badly enough that all the past comments are corrupt. So I will not be able to get them back. I do have a text backup of the comments throughout 07/16/04. I will try to get those back in. I am sorry about this. We will have to move on from this. Live and learn. Now everything is stored in a MySQL database and backed up frequently. We are setting up two replicated machines next to the main machine, just in case this happens again.
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