Trav - 5:19 pm on Nov 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hey fido_44 - welcome to webmaster world!

I'll add my voice to the chorus here: write this one off.

They won't pay you, even if you were somehow able to produce something exactly to their spec, which is very unlikely due to the fact that they don't know what they want.

As others have mentioned, you shot yourself in the foot a couple of times in the years leading up to this moment.

The takeaway is that clients need to be managed, some quite a bit more than others. And client management is at the root of how web designers get paid.