SETI public: No more Harvard SETI projects?

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I had been wondering whatever became of The Planetary Society's Project BETA
Radio SETI program, begun ten years ago, ever since the 84-foot Harvard
radio dish broke and fell during a windstorm in March of 1999.

The TPS Web site has an article from 2000 describing and showing a repair
job undeway:

http://seti.planetary.org/BETA/default.html

But when I went to Harvard University's Oak Ridge Observatory site, I found
out that the
BETA dish has since been "retired":

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/oir/OakRidge/oak.ridge.html

I also learned, to my surprise, that the 61-inch telescope that had
conducted their Optical SETI program has also been retired! Why didn't the
TPS or Harvard or someone inform us about this?

A few years back, TPS began a new Optical SETI project with much fanfare. I
looked on their Web site but could find no new updates on it since 2002
(with lots of broken links here):

http://seti.planetary.org/OsetiConstruction2.htm

The latest version of their Optical SETI page also reveals no recent news on
this project:

http://planetary.org/programs/projects/seti_optical_searches/

So what is happening with what is supposed to be the "largest Optical SETI
project east of the Mississippi"? I and many other have supported this
project financially as well as verbally, so I would
hope to at least know what progress is being made - and why BETA was
abandoned.

Larry

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