We (well, I) have the archives for the era beginning with the transition from the Snitz forum (30th Dec. 2003) until a backup was made on the 23rd Feb. 2006. The only thing that is actually missing is between then and the server crash on the 5th Apr. 2007. I've been considering merging that database with the current one, but I haven't found an easy tool to do so for phpBB. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be interested to hear them.

As for the topics in the "gap". Sure it may be possible to recover some of them from the archive.org/etc (many have been downloaded already) but sorting them out and getting them back into a usable format is a BIG task. Certainly more than I've been able to take on over the past few years.