Looks like CP has fixed this for you. There was a great deal of work done on the new board by the admins when they added the user groups and such but as they never had access to the old board once it disappeared, there was no way to figure out concisely who was a team member, so a decision was made to ask everyone to post a request for access along with their CPID's. At least that's my understanding of it.
I don't think we ever got the answer as to whether you have an archive of the old board/database? If you do would you consider letting us host it here as an archive. I'm sure there could be some impressive information in amongst it all which could prove invaluable to the team
Bok