I hope your backup software recovers most or all of your data...if you do backups to DVD from now on, is there any way to avoid using RAR files, or are the files just too damn big to fit on a single DVD? Just...ugh. Backing up crap is an absolute bitch.
And I guess the moral of the story is, you can't back up too much, and always be super cautious when somebody offers you a deal that seems too good to be true. Sigh.