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no worries -- yes, I'm familiar w/mobidedrm, and have removed the DRM from the most recently purchased mobipocket formatted books that i bought for the old device (aka precrash hard drive). Thus, this has become an exercise in curiousity (and stubbornness), since I (whenever possible) buy my ebooks in ereader format (so I can convert to html and read on my laptop). I just find it annoying that I can't preserve my old mobipocket ID post-head crash.
I guess by restoring the old PID, I could also avoid having to hack together a perl script to mass convert the 10-20 mobipocket formatted ebooks that I bought less recently -- but that would take literally only a few minutes.
The only other hypothetical issue (which is totally a border case) is that I could have checked out some library books prior to head crash w/the old mobi PID (these expiring mobipocket books cannot be dedrm'd to the best of my knowledge), and not been allowed to redownload them w/the new PID, unless I had remaining checkout slots. (Afaik, there's no "return ebook before expiry date" option for library books in order to open up checkout slots.)
My amateurish hackery time is probably better spent on learning to use wget to redownload all of my ereader.com books (which I never fully backed up, on the assumption that I could always re-download off the site) -- there, the issue is that I can't easily view clean download links, as I click "download" buttons to redl the files.
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