Hmm...I only poked around in a few threads and guess I just got lucky on the ones I picked, as everything I selected worked...going thread by thread though, it does look like most of the forums weren't archived afterall. Oh well, sorry for getting folk's hopes up

Stumbled across an online backup of the old forums...its unfortunately Jan 2008, but still might be some good info to pull off of the site from back then even.

http://web.archive.org/web/200801032226 ... oners.com/

Hope it helps someone.