IDisk has started syncing from scratch?

As part of my back up strategy, I have also recently put a copy of all my photos onto iDisk.
This is approx 7000 files at 8GB and took the best part of a week to sync so that it was replicated on 'the cloud' at which point I then felt safe.
However, yesterday, my iDisk icon (the pink cloud disk icon) did not appear and instead a 'sparse image disk' icon appeared instead, and I got an error message about not being able to sync.
Today, I went into idisk preference, to find that iDisk Sync had turned to 'Off'
I turned it on and soon enough the iDisk icon came back. But...
The iDisk has started syncing from scratch. Ie trying to do the full 7000 files that will take a week!!?
Please help. Are my files still there? Why is trying to sync all these files again if so ? Am I somehow pointing to the wrong iDisk?
Many thanks in advance.

I also just noticed there is another disk mounted on my desktop with the same name as my iDisk but with the generic icon (ie the same as if you instert a memory stick)
This seems to have the files on it, but is this on my computer or in the cloud?
I'm losing confidence in the reliability of files stored in the cloud as part of a backup.

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