Sorry for the delay, I've been away...
Although I admire your intention, I guess it would be extremely difficult to be able to complete such a huge amount of work, specially by yourself. I know I have a LOT of work to be done and it's hardly redrawing an entire game from scratch, and I still can't figure out how am I supposed to get all done, considering my current life style (heavy college work, and now I'm forced to get a job on week-ends to help paying the bills).
If you take a look at the support people list, you'll know it isn't an easy task... I think it's more a question of thinking which is better in a designer point of view: I would much rather spend that time and effort in something new, in some kind of personnal improvement over a game of my choice.