Help! Deleted Imovie Projects from both Drives!!

I have to go to the beginning so everything will make sense. Please read the whole thing before making any suggestions. Thank you.
I recently got a MyBook, and reinstalled Leopard onto it. Later it asks me if I want to transfer all my data from my other harddrive.
(Well, I wanted another external harddrive to have more space for my projects, but I didn't want to have to go through reinstalling everything. So I decided when it finishes, I'll delete somethings that it copied, so both hard drives won't look as identical.)
The Drive was 2 TB, and I still had 1.78 TB left after I copied everything from the other hard drive. It would take me took long to explain why I did that, considering that sooo much space was left.
So anyway, I come across my Imovie Folder. Instead of CHECKING to see which hard drive was in, I assumed that it was on my new hard drive it wasn't. Then in a miraculous Idiot Savant moment, I did the same thing in the new drive without realizing it....until I did it of course. And wondered, how in the world did I delete the same folder-No-iindividual Projects, Twice!? So now I'm confused, then anxious, then angry, and then confused again. These were Imovie 08 projects. Some of them might've been trivial things, like music videos I created of show and clips from my life, but their still things I created.
Now mind you, I've never set up time machine, and now I really wish I did.
So I go scouring through the internet trying to find Some restore programs, you name it I tried it, Data Rescue 3, Stellerphoenix, and Data drill. Non of them worked.
On the weird bright side, I created DvD's of some of the videos. And I still have the video files. Just not the projects, or the Dv events that Imovie saved.
But I still wish I could retrieve them.
If you guy's have any information for me...Anything, I would greatly appreciated it. I need all the help I can get.
Thank you.

If you didn't have the on backup, then they're gone unless you enlist the services of a professional data recover service. Lesson learned, unfortunately.

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