I've been asked to go back to a project I've turned my back away from in 2003. And I'm losing sleep because of it?

Argh....  I need to list down my concerns and see how these can best be addressed, then make my decision.

A not so exact version of the kind of bureaucratic double talk I have to deal with in the past.

[New mail]
We had targeted to complete this last weekday.

For the past one week, I understand that each time we developed a new version, we had new feedback, and we reverted immediately the next day. For yesterday, we had to suspend the development due to a more urgent production problem which you are aware of, and it was not advisable for us to craft out a new version that may not help to resolve that problem.

Yes, we can agree that there may be some requirements to be added due to unforseeable situations, but it is rather unproductive to keep changing the program iteratively many times. Having hard deadline and keep making changes is not healthy. Rush work does not allow adequate testing. Continuous changes imply the thoroughness in-depth thinking of requirement was not adequate at the beginning. This may result the original design of the program did not cater for the final requirement, and the programming had to be tweaked in order to meet the urgent deadline. This is not good programming.

From now on, pls feedback only to [someone], not [me]. We want to ensure we have one person understand the complete picture of the requirement, instead of conflicting understanding of information at different times and different sources. [someone] is making the changes now. Likely to finish by tomorrow or day after. She will let you know when she is ready.

[New mail]
[Attn to: Some position name]

As per my conversation with you yesterday, please get this completed by [date].

I agree that we have made a series of requests for added specification to be incorporated into this screen in comparison to that which I had initially specified in my exploratory discussion with [my name] on [date].

As a [position name] you should be more aware than me that system enhancements are only good if they serve the needs of the users in a holistic fashion. As far as I am concerned, the added specifications which we have asked for are not good to haves but rather critical technical specifications needed for the continued efficiency of our operations. [What the hell, if these were critical, why weren't they thought of in the first place?]

I hope that your expedited attention will be given to complete this work by [date].