Thanks for all the help guys - it really is appreciated. I will take your advice about backup methods too, so thank you again!
The site is now back up and running and looks like it did before.
Don't worry I am legit - I'm from St. George's School in sunny Blackpool. You can happily visit St George's School if you want, or look at the exciting Google cache of the site!
I've had a look and a play at the new package, but changing over to that would require me redesigning a fair bit.
And yeah, I should have backed up things other than the content but alas I didn't. live and learn!
Our school website (Edugeek Joomla 1.5) was hacked over the weekend and the swines have deleted the sites template folder and a few other files from the public_html.
Those were easily replaceable but I am having issues finding the template I used when I first made the site - I can't find it lurking on here either. Can anyone point me in the direction of this template.
The sooner I get it sorted the sooner the head stops breathing down my neck!