I am amazed- A-Mazed! After running a few scripts from MainMenu to "prevent Mac disasters" (ie. deleting cache files), my directory data files SOMEHOW ended up corrupt and the hard drive would no longer mount. Scheisse! After disk utility and Disk Warrior 3.03, no data...
Data Rescue II quick scan ran for 20 minutes and recovered all info that I needed, and even preserved the volume structure. ProSoft Engineering, Inc are gods and should be worshipped accordingly. I pay homage to them and their noble creation, Data Rescue II.