Develop Settings gone!!

Has anyone seen this and can offer some help? I went to veiw some pics I tweaked in LR2 a few months ago and noticed that all my develop settings for those pics was gone (i.e. the develop 'history' was just the import date). I went through some other folders and noted that all 'develop settings' for pics after the 15/8/08 (approx 2months ago) are gone..
Very frustrating as I have a LOT of work done in LR2 thats gone. I did not have the Catalog metadata preference; save settings to XMP file checked (do know) and I tried opening my last (and only) catalog backup (14/9/08) and its the same..
I have not changed, moved or renamed the folders the pics are in so I don't know what caused LR2 to drop the develop settings. Does anyone have some advice on what I could do to fix this?
cheers Tony

OK, based on Lee's advice (thanks Lee) I did a search for ".lrcat" files on my PC and found one LR1 (not LR2) catalog I didn't know I had in the "my docs/pictures/silvertone/" directory (Silvertone being that new Microsoft thing I trialled for 10secs or so...). I opened that catalog and have found the missing develop settings...
I have no idea how my develop settings ended up in this LR1 catalog (as I said, I didn't even know I had it..). Anyway, the important thing is I've found them..
Can someone please advise the easist, best and safest way of copying these develop settings from this catalog to my current/real catalog?
cheers Tony
(much happier camper than I was yesterday)..

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