ah-ha... I just saw syntax and assumed that meant a script.
Ok, so I ran the recovery and created a new gdb to output the data into.
When I try to add data, the new gdb shows up as you would expect, but I get
an error message: "Failed to connect to database. This release of the
GeoDatabase is either invalid or out of date. [Invalid Geodatabase
release]." So... does that mean that the release they're using is
incompatible with my version, or something else?