my problem is a bit more ominous - please help!

last week, my wife got a pop-up asking if she wanted the new version of limewire. she got it and now all of our downloaded .mp3 files are gone, including quite a few that had nothing to do with limewire except they were all in the same folder (my music). the only files that escaped deletion were some that my son had in his own folder. i did a search of .mp3 files on our computer and could only find the ones in my son's folder.

at the same time, limewire will not connect anymore. it will only say that it is connecting and never connect to the point where one can search/download.

any ideas? i tried system restore and could not recover the deleted file, nor could i use the old version of limewire.

help!