Thanks everyone. I woke up this morning and it's back online so I will get working on it now.
@6South - I take full responsibility for the backups and their timeliness... that isn't the issue for me. I thought that giving the cloning a shot would save me time from grabbing the backups and uploading them to the server as well as doing what I could to rescue the updates the were not in the backup. And at no time have I asked for compensation from them... it's an unmanaged server without an insurance package and it hosts my various free sites. Not something I'm going to go insane about... I'm a pretty laid back guy.
What I was incredibly frustrated with was the lack of communication by some of their staff members and what turned into a nightmare support experience for me. You'd think that changing a hard drive, installing the O/S and control panel would not involve the complications and delays that I have experienced. That's my issue with this particular experience with Quadranet.
In any case its back up and running now so today has started out much better then yesterday
