Finally got the site back up. A bad power supply took out the old webserver and the case it was in was a non-standard size Gateway box. No replacing the power supply as I couldn't find one that fit. I figured I'd just transfer everything over to another computer and upgrade drupal to a new version, apache to apache2, and php to php5... all at the same time. Not sure what I was thinking.
I realized pretty quickly that I would need to learn a lot more about php, MySQL, and apache than I really had time for. At the same time, I've been scripting in python on the side for about a year now and yes, it really does seem to make programming fun again.
In searching for alternatives to drupal, I pretty quickly decided on PyBlosxom: it's extremely lightweight, everything is written in python, and there's no database language to learn as everything is file based. It's definitely not for everyone though... the directions for setting up plugins are usually along the lines of 'read the source'. Remember though, it's all written in python ;)
After some work on getting the site's theme similar to what I had before, setting up some initial plugins, and writing some scripts to get all my data out of the drupal database, I finally have the site back up.
It only took a little over two months but... It's not like anything else was keeping me busy ;)
A few notes: as of this writing, the comments are using akismet (the same spam filter that wordpress uses). If this doesn't work for whatever reason and I start getting spam, the comments might be turned off for awhile. Also, there is no need to put the ":2300" in the URL for the site anymore... You don't need to change your links (they will still work), but the ":2300" is no longer a necessity.