Well, I can't figure out what happened. or why. Maybe I "fat fingered" something and it just disappeared. i dunno. But...I did download that little utility (Recuva) and I'm impressed. Although it didn't find the files I was looking for, it seems rather impressive for it's size. It found over 9000 files that have been deleted or overwritten, which is good and bad. The good is...it could have easily been the files I was looking for. The bad is...the results also included all the pictures on my friends myspace pages that i've visited and were deleted from my temp internet folders after firefox is closed. Believe me, when i saw these random pics, i was wonder WTF. Anyway...I appreciate everyone who may have given my problem any thought.