Great weekend!
Reply #1 –
Is the battery old? Shouldn't be totally shot as long you get it on a slow (1.5 amp at the MOST) charger and let it sit a week or so. Everybody tries to jump-start and then drive around for a half-hour...that will get the interface charge at the terminals up, but once that energy propogates into the rest of the solution, it's lost at the terminals and you'll "see" a still-dead battery . I also wouldn't use a 6+ amp charger for that long, water might start boiling out. Or anyway, I would keep an eye on the thing and make sure the charger is smart enough that after a day or so it begins bringing down the charge rate.
Definitely not fun being without transportation. Pretty debilitating feeling, been there once or twice, *almost* been there several times