Seth Zenz at LHC Blogs pointed to the video of a talk by Lyn Evans (the LHC project leader) about the LHC, with lots of details about the damage and repairs process, and where the schedule is now. Seth also wrote a transcript of lots of it, which you can find here. It looks to me to be very informative indeed.
-cvj
I thought the initial test run was only meant to be at 450GeV?