Can't open ai doc from flash drive.

Hello.
I run CS3 on my Mac, but have CS4 running on a PC laptop. Last night, I was working on a few ai files that I originally created on my Mac (in CS3). I had no problems with the files and saved them all directly to my flash drive. When I tried to open the same files this morning from the flash drive on my Mac, I got the following message:  A file I/O error has occurred. Each ai file I worked on gave me the same error. (Incedentally, the InDesign files I used opened on the Mac just fine.)
I have swapped platforms/versions before with no trouble. I back saved the ai files to CS3. I tried to open the files on the PC, but it wouldn't open on the PC either.
I am not sure if I have an Illustrator problem, a flash drive problem or what? Also, I saved some of the ai files from the PC as eps files to the flash drive and they have seemed to disappear all-together. Maybe it is a PC thing? (I have very little experience with PCs)
Help is desperatly needed. I hate to redo the artwork if I can help it. Naturally, I am under a deadline, so I may have to anyway, but I would like to prevent this from happening in the future.
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer.

Thank you. I guess I learned a lesson. I just hate learning these things the "hard way."
For some reason, when I tried (again) to open the files from the flash on the PC, the PC wanted to scan it for problems. I allowed it - thinking it might clean up anything that might be causing problems. Only it didn't help at all. In fact, it converted one of the ai files into a text file! Then, more of the files disappeared from the flash after the scan, though it didn't ask permission to delete any files.
I am a Mac girl, so this kind of reinforces any prejudices I have had against PCs. In all of my years of using a Mac, never have files disappeared from my hard drive!
If anyone has any great ideas as far as fixing the ai/text file, that would be great. Otherwise, I had better get busy re-creating all the art. I promise to be cautious using flash drives with ai files going forward.
Thank you!

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