I lost my .lrcat...how can I get it back?

The J: drive where I keep all my pix was full. I bought another bigger drive and formatted it as the F: drive.
I have an external ESATA box (JABOD) with a free slot. I swapped drives around. The J: drive and the F: drive are both in the ESATA box...the J: drive had previously been in the PC box. I copied everything from the J: drive to the F: drive. There are backup drives too, but they are not involved.
I have checked the J: drive and the data there seems intact. I also have the pix on the new F: drive too.
I thought I had done this correctly, but when I launch LR 2.4, it has no catalog. I have found a Lightroom 2 Catalog.lrcat file in C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Lightroom. It was created today and is 760KB. I think it is a "null" catalog...ie, one which is created when LR is first launched? What happened? Any thoughts about finding the lost catalog file?
I'll appreciate any help you guys/gals can give.

I have searched the entire C: drive. There are only 2 catalogs...one is the new one and there is another one in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Temp that is from Nov 2008. It's much larger (5,784KB), but is not the general catalog...it was a catalog of a specific set of pix. When I tried to use it, I got a message that it was from a previous version and had to be converted (or something...not sure about the exact word). I was afraid to let it do that.
I'm probably guilty of not setting up LR to do Catalog Backups? I thought it was doing them once a week, but not sure. Whatever, I can't find any backups! And the current setting for catalog backups is "never"! I'm sure I didn't have it set to never...
I don't understand why moving the J: drive to the ESATA box would cause LR to not find a .lrcat file?
FLASH: On a hunch, I looked on the J: drive for .lrcat files and found a bunch of them! There was a "set" of files from yesterday...an .lrcat, .lrcat.lock, and .lrcat.journal. These were all Lightroom 2 Catalog-2 files. There were other, older files too.
So now my question is how to proceed to make them visible to LR? Why can't it see them when the J: drive is located in an external ESATA box?
Do I just copy them to the C: drive?
Heck, I'll just try that and see...nope, that didn't bring the catalog back. I next also copied the previews folder over (it was HUGE...I thought LR discarded previews more than 30 days old?). Nope, that didn't "fix" it either.
I also noticed that the J: drive activity LED blinks about once a second as long as LR is up. Hmmm...
Once again, I appreciate any help and appologize for the rambling, "stream-of-consciousness" style of writing.

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