Challenge: Export Smart Object Vector Data to Illustrator

I doubt there's any sane way to do this, but I thought I'd throw it out as a challenge:
We have a photoshop file that is built with many (and I mean many) illustrator vector items that were placed into photoshop as smart objects (and scaled and rotated).
Unfortunately the file is for packaging, and we now need the vector objects back in illustrator for printing.
Is there any way to export the paths with their current position, scale and rotation back to ai?
I think we're going to end up doing it by hand...
Thanks!
Niles
CS2 or 3 and as many g5's and intels as needed.

Save out a PSD and open it in Illustrator. Tell Illustrator to retain Photoshops layers. You now have the ability to move the vector art around on a layer in Illustrator. If you need to edit text and objects, you need to manually replace the nested object with the original Illustrator art. Spot colors will also transfer to some extent as layered spots.
PSD is becoming Adobe's interchange format. PDF is trying to have some behaviors of PSD so go and play with them to see what works.

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