Accursed Xaltar. You should not put such major spoilers for the Story Hour you DM without WARNINGS. But alas, it is too late now.
Well, first off, it's not surprising Drizzt died. He's built very badly, for a 3rd Edition character, and most 12th level PC Fighters I've seen could take him down without breaking a sweat. He's not very min-maxed at all, and I've always thought it was one of the amusing discrepancies between the novels and the actual game world.
As for whether or not Drizzt would want to be ressurected.... First, he'd probably make some long, self righteous and self glorifying speech about the experience, with his typical "I am better than thou" attitude, and when his friends ressurect/try to ressurect him, he'll decide "the world needs me, for who else can be so angsty and troubled yet so uber and godlike?" and come back to annoy us all yet again.
He'd probably want to be ressurected, but I only say that because I believe most people would. Drizzt isn't a deep character, in fact most comic book characters have more well thought out motivations then him, so even people who have read a few of the books (like me) won't be able to give you any real definitive answer.
My best advice is to invent some real character and motivations for a NPC that never really had any in the first place, and decide yourself. Just treat him like a NPC you designed yourself, but never fully fleshed out.
