filesystem trashed

Hello all,
   a few days I decided to upgrade my system with some new memory, don't 
know if the memory was trashed or incompatible types, but the system ran 
for about 3 hours then locked up, couldn't get in on the console or telnet, 
so I had to slam it down. When I rebooted it, it complained about a trashed 
file system so I ran e2fsck on it, while e2fsck was running, the kernel 
paniced. Took me awhile to figure out what the problem was, so I put the 
original memory back in, this allowed e2fsck to run to completion without 
panicing, the result, unfortunately, was the filesystem got trashed, 
everything got put into lost+found. The good news, if there is any, is that 
this was not my primary partition, the boot partition was fine as are the 
other 2 partitions, just this one. As luck would have it, this partition is 
where I had alot of stuff that was fairly important. I have a backup, but 
it's not real recent.

My question is, do I have any hope of recovering anything on this 
filesystem. I have made some changes on the filesystem since the disaster ( 
ie: copied some stuff around) , so I'm sure some of the old inodes and such 
have been overwritten, I'd like to hear of anyone who has actually 
recovered stuff after a failure like this, or will I be better off simply 
taking the painstaking route of manually going through the lost+found and 
picking out what I can.


thanks in advance

John



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