Yeah, I could do that but I didn't have access to root so I don't have any files from there and a blanket copy is bound to be missing some non-optified data.

In addition to that the system had become extremely slow and unresponsive and now that I've been forced to start again I'd rather not just copy all of that back on when it's running so smoothly now

I noticed some of the databases are sqlite, I wonder whether if not a direct copy over current files it is possible to open these files and extract data? A stright overwriting of the contacts etc. is preferable though for simplicity!