File content suddenly "deleted", entire Final Cut Project won't reconnect

While freeing up space on my G5's internal harddrive, I deleted a number of really big video files that I was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN I didn't need anymore.
Somehow, after I emptied the trash, however, a bunch of large video files on a completely separate drive became corrupted. The files themselves are still visible in the finder, but they all only contain between zero and 32 KB of size, meaning there's no content left in any of these files, hence, I can't reconnect any of my media.
I don't understand how deleting files on one drive would effect media files on a completely separate drive, as well as screw up the files for completely different projects.
I'm starting to think now I should try to do a file recovery, but it looks like this problem is greater than that and that something is seriously screwed up in my directory. Anyone else encountered this? How do I fix this?
Are my files actually still "there" and it's just a matter of fixing the directory or are they really gone for good?

It's possible that the QuickTime files on the other drive were non self-contained reference movies and were referencing the media you deleted.
When files are deleted, their reference in the disk's directory is removed, the space they occupy is marked as availble, but the data is still on the disk. However, since that space is marked as available, the files you deleted can be overwritten by other files, which would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to get your data back.
You can try using Prosoft Engineering's Data Rescue II to see if you can recover the data. A demo is available that will let you see if it's still possible to recover the data.
You should boot off of another disk if possible, as the more you use the drive that the files were on, the better the chance that they will get overwritten before you have a chance to recover them. Basically, don't do anything to that drive that requires writing to the drive - booting, downloading, etc.

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