Figured I'd best post some kind of update, considering the time things are taking.
Prior to the hard drive crash I was mostly just creating unix native copies of the BWP Fixpack (BWFP) patches, and not having a great time of it either.
Making the patches is simple enough (if time consuming), but trying to reverse engineer what the hell the BWFP was doing in the first place was a nightmare. Another nightmare (as far as I'm concerned) is the fact I literally had no idea what most of them were even for 
I had known (for months) that I was going to have to do a deep dive through the forums anyways, but kept putting it off. It was going to be a hell of a project and I knew it. After the crash, I've decided to remove my head from my backside and focus on the forums instead. Little by little, I'm understanding what problems the patches were written to fix. I've also discovered some of those "fixes" probably should have been handled differently (I'm no modder or coder, but even a layman can see that on some of 'em).
Anyways, I'm still plugging away at things, but forum content has to take precedence for now. I've got mountains of posts to go through, and tons of notes to take. This is going to mean a serious delay to the project, but it's the best way forward.
Again, sorry for the endless delays 