[ladydoc]

Oh my gosh! I am so sorry to hear this. You actually had a worse move then we did and I thought ours was unbeatable. We also have some furniture damage. Moving is hell....on the psychological stress scale, losing your mate is number 1 and number 2 is moving. 3 is losing your job.
So being stressed is to be expected. Nothing can replace your dining set, but try to focus on being here, on arriving safely, that it is only things that are broken (I keep telling myself this daily with varying degrees of success), not people. I have never had a successful negoitation with a mover; they make the paperwork so heinous that you almost don't want to do it.