Of course I have no need for speed myself,but I do have 2 "spare/backup" wallets on other PC's that are always "caught up" just in case.All I do is swap my dat & I'm in my main wallet.
Hope you guys get your BTC/money back soon
What version are you using? Use add peer and any recent computer can download the whole block chain in less than 4 hours with 0.8 and decent bandwidth.