Well, that did it! My restore of a savegame file from April 20 worked. Backupbuddy also insists on restoring the 3 music files, so I let it do that.

My stats - running now with the restored savegame file from April 20, 2006

Realtime Hours plays - 2820
Villagers born - 775
Villagers cured - 715
Villagers buried - 48
Oldest Village - 87
Max Village Population - 65
Food harvested - 5281957
Crabs Caught - 16895
Total tech points earned - 932851
Total tech levels completed - 12
Island events encountered - 108
Puzzles solved 12 of 12

My Preferences
Sound On
Music On
Music Volume Low
Difficulty Easy
Game Speed Fast

Puzzle 1 - 8 hours. Puzzle 2 - 11 hours. Puzzle 3 - 44 hours. Puzzle 4 - 49 hours. Puzzle 5 - 59 hours. Puzzle 6 - 69 hours. Puzzle 7 - 49 hours. Puzzle 8 - 97 hours. Puzzle 9 - 102 hours. Puzzle 10 - 119 hours. Puzzle 11 - 155 hours. Puzzle 12 - 90 hours.

I'm running Village Sime on a Palm TX. The game is on my SD card. The savegame file and the three music files are in Palm memory. I see the three music files are also on the SD card.

I also use a program called FileZ (fantastic program) to look at files on my Palm. On my SD card, Village Sim.prc is listed as being created 04/30/05, modified 12/29/05, and accessed 04/25/06.
The size of Village Sim.PRC is 3434557b. The Palm utility lists it as 3973K - bet they also include the music files.

I don't know what it is - it's been decades since I did any programming, and I never programmed on the Palm - counter overflow or something?

I started a new game when I installed the Village Sim enhancement. Before that, I ran the game for so long that a weird thing happened (spoilers) - the Golden Child died! That meant that there were no more group festivals with the dancing. I probably would have started the game again, without the enhancement, just to get a Golden Child back. There were no festivals - it was so sad!