for fear of unsupportably burning the dude in charge of that stuff, but...
when we put this particular system up, apparently they forgot to set up the archiving stuff... so we got nothin'.
That's two people on the hot seat who are currently sweating profusely.
Hence the dbf analysis tool requirement... we need to be able to go looking into the files for the deleted data; since the db hasn't been packed yet (or whatever they call that process in oracle land) we should be able to get a lot if not all of it back... just need the tools that will let us look into the file and tell us what's actually in there.