I won't be reactiving the forum (even in read-only mode). After I posted the notice about the forum being down for maintenance (before I put up the notice about it being closed), I downloaded all the messages files from the forum, so there's no way that someone could have created any threads after the time I stated downloading stuff (the download of all messages took about 30-40 minutes).
As a replacement, use Windows Grep to search the text files of my zipped archive of the forum...
http://www.wingrep.com/
...it's really nice, once you get used to it (especially the regular expression support). I use it all the time searching through text files and source code files.
botman