welcome back to wow(while i am a F2P wow player)
but a friendly warning, it may not be the same game you play 3 years ago,
and since diablo3 recent launch, its less crowded in major cities.

i think the Battle.net system imply in patch 3.30 in year 2009

http://www.wowpedia.org/Battle.net
(wowpedia kinda replace wowwiki)

i believe you need to remember what email you register in your old wow account.
and your vanilla wow CD-Key.

maybe you can straigh away create a new battlenet account and just add you vanilla cd-key(i'm not sure, you might want to ask them in your email.)
anyway here a FAQ about account recovery
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/ac...recovery-faq#q1

the new scroll of rez can also help you
http://www.wowpedia.org/Scroll_of_Resurrection
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/sc...esurrection-faq

One character instantly boosted to level 80
One free character move to the player's (that invited) faction/realm
A free upgrade to World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
7 free days of game time
Have their bags replaced with 4 20-slot bags.
Have First-aid trained up to 450.
Have equipped a new set of items, exclusive to the Scroll of Resurrection system.


This post has been edited by Imbecile: May 22 2012, 08:02 PM