Recovering a broken database

Hello,

I'm having the almost exact problem described here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2004-12/msg00110.php

That is, a 8.0 which started on a 7.4.2 repository. After noticing,
I switched back to 7.4.2, but now it gives this error and won't start:

FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with PG_CONTROL_VERSION 74, but
the server was compiled with PG_CONTROL_VERSION 72.
HINT: It looks like you need to initdb.

I read the pointer about using pg_resetxlog, but I obtain a seemingly
empty database (no tables). Here's the output from pg_resetxlog:

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pg_resetxlog: pg_control exists but is broken or unknown version; ignoring it
Guessed pg_control values:

pg_control version number:            72
Catalog version number:               200310211
Current log file ID:                  0
Next log file segment:                1
Latest checkpoint's StartUpID:        0
Latest checkpoint's NextXID:          514
Latest checkpoint's NextOID:          16384
Database block size:                  8192
Blocks per segment of large relation: 131072
Maximum length of identifiers:        64
Maximum number of function arguments: 32
Date/time type storage:               floating-point numbers
Maximum length of locale name:        128
LC_COLLATE:                           en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE:                             en_US.UTF-8

If these values seem acceptable, use -f to force reset.
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Then I use -f and it resets, but to no use.

I also tried recompiling 7.4.2 (I install it from source anyway) but
no use.

I did a backup of the repository before I attempted the reset.
Is there any other way I can try to recover the database?

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Ciprian Popovici