The final nail in the coffin of my PS3's game data

As some of you may know, on my way home from Christmas Break, someone dropped my PS3 onto the pavement, and when I came home to enjoy my new PS3 games, I was met with this horrible sight:

The Yellow light of death. As if it weren't bad enough that I had to pay $150 for Sony to replace my system, I also learned that Sony has no interest in transfering data when they echange systems, because they are lazy SOBs. Why it is Microsoft has no problem doing that, but Sony digs in their heels and refuses to, I have no idea. So I held on to my hard drive in hopes of findng a way to transfer it myself.

Unfortunately, after scouring every possible resource and using every trick in the book, I was unable to rescue the data from my deceased 20GB PS3 and transfer it to my new one. The best that I can do now is retrieve my trophy data and DLC through Playstation Network, but that's not really of much consolation since i had 2 years worth of game saves on there. I still don't understand why Sony doesn't transfer user data when they replace broken PS3s, and as you can imagine, I'm at least a little PO'd about having to give it all up. Thanks for nothing, Sony! :(

It's hardly going to be torture to play through my favorite PS3 games again, although I can't necessarily say the same about unlocking all of my data in Soul Calibur 4 again. Still, it's a shame that I had to lose everthing everythingl. And for what? :(