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I'll try all your suggestions, be back in a couple days.
bty, i transferred them via usb

Well I'm back. First let me say I tried everything you all suggested, but I couldn't get anything to work for me. And to further complicate matters, on my old XP computer, I deleted all files after I transferred them to my new W7 computer. Pretty much wiping it clean, so the thought of re-copying them was not an option.
Then, while surfing around on the W7 forum site, I came upon this suggestion, DiskDigger, it's a program that digs up deleted files, and dig them up it surely did. After it found the files I was looking for, I just dragged them from one hard drive to the other, and wha-la, I'm back in business, everything working just great.
Thanks to all who tried to help.