Best ext3 data recovery service?

[sean]

So on top of everything else breaking as I move to my new place, my 
personal hard drive is going south too. 

It came on the heels of a large 15 GB zip uncompression over vmware's 
shared folders thing.  I don't think that has anything to do with it, 
but the last time I tried to turn the machine on I got a sequential 
listing of DriveReady SeekComplete errors.  That's after I turned SMART 
on after first noticing bad sectors, but I'm not about to futz with it 
anymore--if drive the head is smashing into the platters, I'd like to 
limit that sort of damage by not even turning it on. 

Could anyone recommend a good data recovery service that could deal with 
160 GB of ext3 on two partitions and can respect the privacy of my 
data?  Data Doctors starts at $350 but I'm certain they're not the only 
game in town.

If anybody could share their experiences in this arena I'd much 
appreciate it.

Thanks,

--sean