It is a matter of trust, agreed.
I wonder, had there been no donations to purchase a new server, where would the money come from for these repairs? If I said to you, Fencer, I have $4K(or the full price) for you to purchase a brand new server, check is in the mail, I would expect (not trust) that you would purchase that server. If you do not have money already to keep up with repairs, perhaps you should be taking donations for that purpose, instead of a new server?
Stevie... you didnt do a very good job of removing these type of players from your dollar donation tournament ;) It would be into the third round or finished by now had it not been for 2 or 3 players!