Well, I got the final word from an engineer at sleepycat:
If recovery can't recover the databases, use the salvage flags
(the -R and -r flags to db_dump). For more information see the
db_dump utility documentation, included in your download package
and also available at:
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/utility/db_dump.html
Of course, it's pretty frightening that recovery isn't managing
to put the database back together -- please let us know if we
can help you understand how that might have happened.
I've tried, but it turns out my database can't be salvaged, either. I am curious myself as to how this happened, since my host claims nothing happened, and the only thing I know that could have caused this was posting to the past, but it seems like time to admit defeat and move on. I'm about halfway through writing Notetab Pro macros to extract the text out of my HTML archives, and hope to be back online by Wednesday.
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