Hi again,
Thanks for all the info everyone. I emailed Brad on his honeymoon, as CR suggested, to see if what they have will work for me. That would be the best news as this seems not a trivial task.
I just ran across zipdy and wonder if that is a possibility. It is GPL'd and works on postgresql in PHP, Perl or C. Might be a good backup to look at.
How much does the 2002 census data cost?