Just to keep you guys up to speed.... I was able to recover all my data from the harddrive, and there is a slim chance that I'll be able to get our last recording back from the dead. In either case, I now have the following.
-A working LaCie media drive.
-All the old shows.
-All my video work.
It took about 72 hours, but I did it. The bastard LaCie drives will be replaced by a G-Tech RAID drive. I'm done assing around.