Not sure to help in this situation, but I did want to mention backups again.
I'm a bit more geek than most, so this may not work for everyone -- but I dump an image of my HD to an external drive once a month -- and the drive can hold three images. Restoring an image will lose any new data you've saved -- but it will bring your machine back clean.
I had a laptop stolen last year on a Saturday; on Sunday I got another identical laptop we had at work -- Monday morning I walked into work with a fully operating machine. Since I don't store email on the laptop but on servers...I lost virtually nothing.
And as a mention for backups -- keep them separate from your computers for just those kinds of reasons. If the external drive had been inside my house, I am sure it would have gotten taken as well.
Steve