Freak-out after system restoration

Hi everybody! This is my first post here, you all seem very helpful and I hope you can help me because I'm freaking out a little.
This summer, my hard drive and motherboard got fried and replaced. Happily, I had everything backed-up on an external hard drive, it was just geographically far from me. I just got back to it (about a month later), and successfully restored all my missing files and apps. The only catch is now I can't find anything I had saved during that month between hard drive replacement and restoration, including some pretty important photos. Is there somewhere I'm not looking? Or did I do something horribly wrong? Any help you can throw my way would be incredibly appreciated.
Thanks!
Sara

Hey guys, thanks for the quick responses. I was out of town for the weekend, and now I'm back and freaking out less but still curious. To answer/clarify some points:
How did you backup your stuff to an external HDD?
Did you use a backup utility? If so, which?
I used Apple's "Backup" application, which I had to download again to access my info off of the hard drive.
Did you backup/clone the entire HDD, the Users Folder or individual files?
I backed up my users folder, a few applications I don't still have the installation disks for, and my Word, Photoshop, itunes, and iphoto library folders, I believe.
So, both the HDD and the logic board were replaced. Right? In other words, same computer, only >now with replaced logic board and HDD?
Yep. Exactly.
successfully restored all my missing files and apps.
How? What method did you use?
I found basically the instructions how to do it in Backup Help, except for some probably critical information. It told me to click on the links below for restoring files to iphoto or itunes, except those links didn't exist anywhere.
In retrospect, I think I figured out what I did wrong. They give you two options, one involving replacing missing files and the other involving overwriting files. I took that to mean that if any duplicate files existed on both my computer and the hard drive, it would replace the existing ones with those from the hard drive. However, I think it really meant that it overwrote all of the information on my computer with the information being imported from the hard drive. If this is really what I did, can any of that information be retrieved?
OK, so after the HDD was replaced you were working on the computer and saved some photos on >it, is that right? Then, since you restored your backed up data you cannot find those photos and >other stuff you saved before restoring the old data, is that right?
Yep. That's this gist of it. I hope this info clarifies my possible boneheadedness. Thanks again for the help.
Sara

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