Files lost when moving from HD to external HD

I understand that this is a bug (http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/movebug.html) that effects Leopard but it has happened to me using tiger.
I have run Data Rescue2 and it has recovered many files but none of the 200 or so that I lost.
Does anyone have an idea what I could do next?
I'm a complete layman, all the above was suggested to me by someone more knowledgeable. So please, if you do have a answer, explain it simply.
Thank you very much in advance.

I have run Data Rescue2 and it has recovered many files but none of the 200 or so that I lost.
Then the space those files took up on the HD were written over. DR2 is very good, especially if you used the Thorough Scan, if it can't find them then we're talking really big bucks & resources to recover them... if at all.
What happens is that once those files are no longer in the Trash, the OS gets to use those Sectors to write New or temp files to, and just booting up off the same drive can overwrite the Freed Space.

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