I finally got most of my stuff recovered using officerecovery.com freeundelete , as suggested by Mikomi
It did miss a few files on the way, but it told me which ones it couldn't recover, so I can get them manually.
resotration is a smart little utility - but it's one-at-a-time undelete - not practical when the Imagline uninstaller managed to delete a grand total of 916 files
once again - thanks for the suggestions and the moral support -
