pg, can you personally help this fellow out? Its such as a rare occurrence, like you said, and its always good to be able to retrieve your account. I lost at least 2 accounts on Digg over the years(before I stopped using it) and was never able to retrieve them.
I did. In fact that is the default solution: when someone forgets their password they email me and I reset it for them (if they put their email addr in their profile).