So, I've got a high schoold reunion coming up (don't ask how many years). In high school I was the annual/newspaper photographer. I have around 7000, 35 mm B&W negatives that I would like to scan. The purpose being to sell copies of the pictures on a web site before & after the reunion (Huzzah Capitalism!). I've got the web stuff covered, but I need an idea of a scanner that can do a really good job with a fairly high, in my estimation, throughput -- I've got until October to do this. I will want to scan at a relatively high resolution so that people can make decent prints from the scans.
Any hardware suggestions that will not totally destroy my savings? Drum scanners are out, I think as too expensive. So I'm thinking a flat bed.