Comment You need more stuff on the web (Score 1) 888
"I've generally tried to keep a low profile online and until recently there's been very little information about me available from the major search engines."
This is your problem. If the only thing about you on the web is this report from fifteen years ago, that's the only thing prospective employers are going to find on Google. Start a blog, use your real name in discussion groups, write letters to the editor, start a StackOverflow account under your own name (this is my highest ranking Google hit). You've got to put good stuff about you on the web if you want to drown out the bad stuff.