Ah sorry, I misread 2012 for 2011!
Doug, if you are overloaded, you need to try to offload tasks onto other people. Keeping a small website and forum running shouldn't be too hard, or if it is, finding and advertising alternatives such as here to people that have paid a deposit should be simple.
I'm sure everyone appreciates you are doing this for the love of it, and you have done a bunch of work and have a bunch of cash tied up in components and boards, and have been sweating it out waiting for the pots. But firing out an email to 40 people letting them know what is happening takes minutes. Not everyone uses IRC. The old forum had a wealth of info on it, do you have a backup that can be reinstated?