Oh man, that is so cool! In the comments, the original project manager and one of their team both kick in on the discussion! They are working the NASA side of things to see if they can get resources reassigned to the project again! Love amateur astronomers and their sleuthing stories.
So far so good NASA HQ said in a telecon today that the biggest hurdle is unearthing all of the command and control code stored inside of a database somewhere. That's quite a small hurdle, unless multiple people totally botched their job. This looks like it could be a successful resurrection! I'm not sure if it's necessary yet, but the biggest challenge might be spinning the spacecraft back up to a quicker RPM. Hopefully the thrusters still work, because orbital adjustments are likely to be needed, regardless, for maximum scientific impact. But yeah, everyone in the community is ecstatic :).