No need for the speculation.
To cut a long story short, did a backup, tried to run upgrade, faced many errors, tried to redo everything with the backup only to realise backup was a corrupted one. Attempted to obtain a 3-4day old backup from host, but they only do daily backups ( of which has already been messed up by the upgrade processes ).
So end of the day, I have nothing to work with anymore.
So there, as the page says...gone.

Oh well, it's been fun. Esp with folks like 1014 around lol