If anyone else out there has experience with Compaq "Quick Restore" disks that'd be a great help.  I stopped the process after the accidental partition.  Before I did all this I supposedly backed up all the files, but seeing 38gb compressed to less than 12 doesn't have me too convinced I actually did... unless it left out all of my artwork files, models, main bryce files, zipped files et all.  The music I am not to worried about, I have 80% of it on discs, fonts are generally easy to get.  It's losing all my adobe software (long since lost my disks in movies, Quark, Dreamweaver Ultradev/Fireworks, and a few other progs I don't have access to anymore that'll hurt the most.

Note to everyone... this is what you get from uninstalling AOHell.  Rat bastards wrecked my registery years ago, and finally had to try to reinstall factory conditions.

Thanks for the tips too.  Unfortunately since I can't boot my computer until I reformat, unless I can get in contact with friends who know what they are doing, I'll have to wait a bit longer before I can move foreward.