This was from quite a while ago and I didn't have a dvd writer working under linux, nor my convenient USB drive, so my backups were infrequent. I tended to email files to myself, but never did that with graphics.

The data might be recoverable, I still hope. A friend who works at a pc shop and does this sort of stuff all the time is gonna get all can off it, though I must wait since he's doing it expenses only to save me money and he has paying customers who obviously come first. So, it'll be a while but I pray those files will be intact still.