ok, doing the rescan now. Thank you for the help! I guess the reward will go to fcmatt if this works since he was the first to respond

I'll let you know the result as soon as the scan is done.
Makes me wonder whether this is a viable business model:
Technical support for large holders of bitcoins who have a lack of computational skills.
Most technical issues however often requires exposure to your wallet to solve things. Which in return requires a lot of trust. It's still an entertaining idea though if you can find the initial few customers who are willing to trust you with their computer and thus wallet

now this prob does not matter but how old is this wallet.dat file? are we talking ancient compared to the bitcoin client you
are running today? Just thinking outside the box... but if it was really old it would probably throw off an error like:
wallet corrupted
It was already fixed, go give him your address!

success! where would you like your coins sent fcmatt?