OK, I'm an idiot.  I should have realized the the "no fault possible" upgrade to ext3 was too good to be true.  Perhaps I read a bit too much this time and figured, "Hey, it's only adding a journaling file, right?  What can possibly go wrong.?"
    Well, I followed the directions, but I'm tired and I ran the wrong command.  I erased my /home directory!  Oh excrement, I was just working on a web site for a client, it looked really nice, and now it's ALL GONE.
    Well, I haven't written to the partition yet, so the inodes are still there, right?  How do I recover data?  Most of it is not a problem, but I had 2 projects that I really want to get back.
    From now on I will do two things:

1. NEVER attempt that "cool thing I've been wanting to check out" when I'm exhausted and haven't slept in  a while.
2. BACK-UP!

Just please help!