Entire iDisk corrupt after Snow Leopard upgrade

I keep a local copy of my iDisk on my laptop hard drive (System Prefs/MobileMe/iDisk sync: ON) and have about 15gb used out of 20gb capacity.
After installing 10.6 on Friday, my local iDisk is useless. At first I thought it was a single Excel sheet that had been corrupted, but further investigation showed that 90% of the files in my iDisk "Documents" folder had a 0kb file size and could not be opened. All of the other folders (and subfolders) on my iDisk were empty as though everything had been deleted.
Everything just vanished.
None of the files on my local drive ("Macintosh HD") seem to be affected but that is of little consolation since I keep all of my important documents on the iDisk for the purpose of remote backup to the "cloud."
Anyone else experience this?
Message was edited by: LeifD

My TimeMachine doesn't back up the iDisk...which I was never concerned with since it was being backed up to the cloud (incidentally, the only feature of MobileMe that I use).
As soon as I discovered the problem I turned off iDisk sync so that there is no local drive; the data only exists remotely and can only be accessed when online. I wanted to prevent an automatic sync that would delete/corrupt the files on the cloud server. It appears that I caught it in time because the files are still on the cloud (!!).
I suppose that I will manually copy the files back down to my local HD. I don't want to turn sync back on to rebuild the local iDisk, fearing that it may destroy the data on the cloud.

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