Seeing you're in the Bay Area you might want to give Drive Saver's a ring.
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com
They're pretty much the best in the business, sadly, they charge for that privilege. It's worth giving them a call though as they're the only place I know capable of reliably doing platter rebuilds. We had a few computers destroyed in a fire several years back and they recovered all the data off the drives.
Good luck with the (data) recovery.