Corrupt CS3 files

Please help.
I have created many illustrations in CS3 and today when I went to open them I get a window asking how I would like to import text. It is as if all my illustrations are viewed as text files by illustrator now. I have an illustration I have spent weeks working on and am absolutely heartbroken that it is unopenable now.
Anything I create new now will re-open correctly. I tried the Illustrator Recovery tool but that said it couldn't recover it either.
Please let me know if anyone has encountered anything like this.

You of course have back ups burnt to a disk can you post on of those files?
They should open this is corruption that took [lace at some point after ou created them and your back ups are probably fine.
You do burn every thing you do to a removal media while working in progress?
Some where you have copies that can be opened. These look like they might have been temporary files that somehow got renamed other than a temporary file and was saved instead of the actual files.
I tried with CS 4 and they di not open except as blank files with an empty text box.

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