Yay, progress!
The box couldn't even boot on the 5.2.1 boot CD I made, but it did run on the Linux Rescue CD.
Robert copied the raw partitions with dd to another box so we can mount them there. It's copying the /home partition now and should be done mid-afternoon. Haven't yet decided on a plan for what to do after that. I think we'll boot the box in FreeBSD (4.10 system) and see if it can run stable for a couple of hours while we work on copying (from the raw disk image copies) and setting up the lists on another box.
Go Bj...bj..goddamn unicode...Mr. Hansen go!
We're all counting on you! Rah rah!