you can't restore the contents of an SQL table from a bunch of HTML files
True... but what you could do if you were so inclined is write a script which goes thru and scans the HTML files to create an insert sql file... ;-)
I know what Simon (/Mark?) was trying to do with this extra forum, but IMHO it seemed to create a mess in the General Discussion forum where we had quite a few moved topics (since it creates a post which points to the moved one)... do we still need this one?