You'll find many, if not all of the missing threads on the Island of Misfit Posts:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forumcgi/fo...ads&number=134

The only problem is, you need to be a moderator or an administrator to post in that forum...which is sad, since there are many interesting threads there that I would never have seen were they not collected there.

I guess we're not allowed to pick through the garbage