[PaulD]

I think you will find Facebook (and twitter for that matter) completely unhelpful with this. Perhaps it has changed but I had a similar situation with my company name and nothing I did could get the name back or the page passed to me. In the end I had to go with some alteration of the name that was available, but as the page I wanted was clearly abandoned for years and never really used, it was incredibly frustrating.

Best wishes,

Paul.