0.2 BTC COD unless you're really stopping at 60 minutes

Dial the first number and when prompted enter the other one.  An operator will tell you the private key.

I'm out of ideas.

Was he really doped up coming out of surgery and just wrote down nonsense thinking he was remembering some private key or password?

Well it's obviously false that any brainwallet you can memorize can be cracked, because theoretically one could memorize a private key.  But you're not going to be remembering that in 6 months.

Were those the only two things he wrote on the paper?  Did he really remember all those seemingly random characters?

Your wallet.dat file is your wallet.  You need to re-back it up about every 100 transactions.  Earlier is better.

It's also possible for everyone named Bob to simultaneously be hit with lightning.  Better start worrying about that, too.

It'll definitely be before $100k

What was your passphrase?  You can at least spread the word for others to not use brainwallets.

Yeah that would be my guess too.

Did you download the binary? Try recompiling bitcoind using your version of those libraries.

The wait time is to make sure your payment clears, it takes 4-5 business days for ACH.  They won't give you your BTC until it clears.  You can always see how much you can purchase at the right.  After you wait 30 days you'll be able to buy $50,000 worth instead of whatever you start at.

There's no reason to figure out how to spend a brainwallet, they'll be gone before you even query blockchain.info to watch your deposit.

As far as electrum goes, you don't need their servers to be working to export your private keys.  So just keep your seed safe and a backup copy of electrum somewhere.

You could query the blockchain api and post the results on your page.  Or if you're running bitcoind use txindex=1 and post that.  Or use Abe and run your own block explorer.

Or at least tell us the address.

The problem is that since it's raid 0 you have to reassemble it into an array.  A regular windows CD can boot into recovery mode, you just need the raid drivers from the motherboard manufacturer webpage.  It's possible you could boot into a Knoppix Live CD which might be able to assemble the array.

Is it something simple like you didn't allocate enough home drive space?

It's probably one of those terrible raid implementations they build into motherboards.  Is it windows?  You'll have to get the computer booting unless you have another of the same type of motherboard to plug the drives into.  You'll have to boot to windows recovery using the raid driver disk and then search for the wallet.dat and extract it.

You could hand the private key back and forth and do the same.