Catalog has Disappeared

Hi.
I have just experienced a strange and disturbing problem.
I have Lightroom 2.5. I have been using LR for about a year, and I have never experienced this problem before.
My Dell computer has LR loaded on my C:\ drive. Catalogs are also stored on that drive. Most picture files are stored on an internal terabyte G:\ drive. Certain folders on the C:\ drive, including those where the catalogs are stored, and all picture files on the G:\ drive are backed up on the external H:\ drive.
I have 6 catalogs, including the original catalog, Lightroom 2 Catalog. Lightroom 2 Catalog is the catalog I have put most of my pictures in.
Just a short while ago, I noticed that Lightroom 2 Catalog was completely empty. No pictures show up when I open that catalog. When I look at the size of this catalog, it is only 740 kB. I believe it used to be 130,000 kB or so in size.
Unfortunately, the backup on my external H:\ drive is now also only 740 kB because I have my backup set to automatically backup these catalog files, any time there is a change to them.
I can go back to a Lightroom generated backup, but something is quite odd about it. Somehow, a backup from January 19, 2009 somehow got set up into my Lightroom recently opened files. When I open this backup, it appears as if most if not all folders I have created up to yesterday are still there. I am not sure, but I think all Collections I have created up until yesterday are also in the backup from January 19, 2009.
I have no idea what has happened. Fortunately, it appears as if I can go back to a backup on the C:\ drive; however, that quite old backup, January 19, 2009, appears to be the one with the latest updates in it. It has updates I did late on Friday and Saturday. The backups from 11/13 and 11/15 do not have the latest updates in them.
I'm trying to think what I have done that might have triggered this problem. I did create a new catalog in the last couple of days. This morning, right before I noticed this problem, I also exported a Collection to a catalog on a portable hard drive so I could transport it to a laptop. Other than that, I really do not know.
Has anyone seen this problem or have a clue as to what might have happened? And, any suggestions on what to do to get back to "normal"? Right now, I can get what I believe to be my most up to date changes by reloading the backup, but I don't want LR to have to go to the backup all the time. Should I just copy that backup and rename it to a folder where that original Lightroom 2 Catalog was?
Thanks for any suggestions.

I wasn't sure if that's the procedure, or if there is procedure through
Lightroom itself to take a backup and make it one of my catalogs.
Something else is strange. After I sent in my question, I noticed that if I
got out of LR and then got back into it, it kept on bringing up that
Lightroom Catalog 2 catalog. I would get an error message stating that
there was a problem with that catalog and that I could not open it. I could
then select another catalog.
I checked in Preferences, and it was set to open that Lightroom Catalog 2
catalog every time I open LR. I know I did not have it set that way. It
had been set to open up the most recently used catalog.
So I changed Preferences back to "most recently used." Things seemed to
work as they should, every time I exited LR and then loaded it again.
That is, until just now. I turned off my computer and went out to see a
movie. When I came back, I turned my PC back on. I loaded LR, and I once
again got that error message about being unable to open the LR Catalog 2
file. Once checked Preferences, and once again, it was set to open LR
Catalog 2. I changed it once more back to open the "most recently used"
catalog.
Something strange is happening. I'm checking into other stuff.

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