Hah. I saw the unedited version of this in my email.
I'm glad you got a lawyer. I had a similar situation where Fox bought a site I had built from the people I built it for, and I was never paid for reuse... in fact, they thought they didn't have to pay me what I was still owed from the original hours I'd put into it, and they tried to get me to sign a contract handing over all rights to the source and agreeing to do future work at 1/2 price for them. I let them hang and didn't help them with the updates they were trying to do. If they'd had any common sense, they would have just kept me on at the same rate and not tried to force me to sign the contract; instead, they hired 8 coders and spent somewhere around $150k decompiling it and trying to make the changes they wanted. They ended up breaking the site. It stayed up, broken, for a couple months and then they gave up.

They never paid me anything, but at least I had the pleasure of watching them fail epically.