Just to let anyone who was concerned with my case that the pressure is off for the moment. I have succeeded in re-achieving the status of the Zope database prior to its crash, and moving past. I remain impressed by the system's ease of programming. I had previously implemented portions of these systems in NeoWebScript and PHP3, and it compares favorably with both. (Well, in point of fact, it is far out of NeoWebScript's league, since said lingo is a rotten excuse for web programming. Apparently NeoSoft suffers from the NIH syndrome, which is sad, since I have met some of their techs, and they're generally pretty froody fellows.) However, any advice that anyone can offer regarding how to increase stability, such as examples of particularly stable configurations and what setup was gone through to attain them, would be greatly appreciated.