Uh, what sporty said. Sometimes you just have to step back ten yards and punt. Otherwise you wind up preserving junk and cruft that keeps slowing your development and operations as time goes on. The real problem is convincing management of this, many of whom either don't get it or don't care since they won't be in their positions that long. We're getting close to that point here at work, and we're doing a few 'stealth', fill-in projects to start the ball rolling while we can. It's not an ideal solution, but it beats ignoring the problem and hoping it will go away.