Without admitting guilt (ahem), the DNN Server's drives were all reformatted, so a new install is necessary, but the SQL Server database was on another server and seems to be intact.

Questions:

1. Can the database be reattached and all the content restored? 
2. If so, would the same DNN version be required?
3. If so, can I verify the version used by inspecting the database?
4. If so, where do I look?
5. Is there something special I need to do besides get the connection string pointing to the data with the username & password correct?

Thanks.

Thank you very much. That's more work than I wanted to do, but much less than starting over. Your support is highly appreciated.

I followed the instructions as best I could, built the new site, installed the modules & set their IDs, but when I installed the skin, I found it had been updated and the original was not available. After connecting to the old database, everything was there, and by reapplying the new skin and containers, it took its shape again, with HTML content in their modules. So far so good.

However all other types of modules are broken (without content) and there are no files from the previous site in the File Manager. Am I stuck recreating all this from scratch? How and where would something like a jpg, gif, or pdf be stored after its uploaded to the File Manager?