Andy,
Great article. I think this topic is fantastic. Probably one of the best area's on this site, even tho there are only three entries. It's a good insight to other DBA's Disaster Recovery (DR) and it's always interesting to see what extra work you have to do on the fly when the problem falls out of the DR plan scope.
Fortunately (touch wood) we've not experienced anything like that.....but who know's what the future holds...especially as were moving to a new production box....
I guess you can test and test your DR plan, but computers, as wonderfull as they are, are always full of surprises!
Don't wish to curse all the rest of you out there, but any further disasters (or near disasters) would make interesting reading....
Clive Strong