Lost images, ratings & edits in Lightroom 4.1

Hi all,
On opening Lightroom 4.1 it appears to have reverted back to how it was a few months and so I lost all of the images I was working on. On reimporting them back into Lightroom, this was performed quickly as if perhaps they were remembered, however all ratings and edits remained lost. Do you know if it is possible to recover these?
Thanks
J

Take a look at the File->Open Recent menu. You may find some other catalogs
there.
If not, search your hard drives for Lightroom catalog (.lrcat extension)
files. Open them all, one by one, to see which is the right catalog.

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