Ok, so this turned out to be one big load of crap in the end, but nonetheless, I temporarily had access to the directory listings and downloaded all the source files I could get to before the site went back to normal.
Just kind of interesting look into what made this site tick.
http://www.fites.net/files/eon8.rarOf particular interest is the db.inc.php.gz file in the includes directory

That might be useful to someone.