My mac will not let me open (what were) folders, and displays only a question mark?

About two to three months ago, I had a folder labeled "Complete" (random name). I had dozens of videos from my Flip and some documents created from TextEdit inside. I had it in my desktop first, but then decided it would be easier to place in my application bar. So I did that, and then it worked fine.
   Then, I accidentally deleted iMovie (yes, very stupid of me, I don't know how I managed to do that). It did not have anything to do with my Complete folder. It was still working fine.
    I reinstalled iMovie '08, and it took about 4-5 hours to successfully download all of the movies from iMovie (I'm a movie type of person). And when it did, I clicked out and found my Complete folder had a gray question mark instead of the blue folder it usually had. Confused, I clicked on it repeatedly and it did nothing. I held down the mouse and it said, "Open at login" with a check. I unchecked it, and it didn't open.
    Since then, I have had trouble searching for it via Finder. All of the videos inside were lost, as were the few documents. I tried to install TimeMachine, but alas, it is not compatible with my very old Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger. I think that I may go to an Apple store to see if they can help me, although I highly doubt they can, since it's been 2-3 months. The TimeMachine only went back 12 hours, anyway. I would have had to have done it then.
    I'm quite unsure what to do now. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! The videos and documents were super dooper important to me and I feel horrible and stupid that I somehow got rid of it.
    Thank-you,
-Kikisan

Hello,
The question mark means it can't find it where it was when you put it in the Dock.
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Use it to search your whole drive for Files & Folders, case insensitive & show invisibles...
Complete
That will show any with that word in the name at all.

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