Photoshop CS5: Layers... GONE!!!

I created a document with multiple layers... saved as a PSD. no problem.
Saved a pair of copies, under different names, even.
Saved as a jpg, emailed said jpg to people.
Later, go back in PS CS5, open the original PSD. There's one single background layer, as if I'd flattened the original. Ditto for ALL of the copies.
This is a very serious problem... have to make changes to the text, and, basically, I'm looking at re-building the entire thing from the ground up... any suggestions, folks?
Little help...

Your answer only makes sense if I had one single copy of the psd document. I made three, and made all three before creating a jpg from the third version.
Here's the process. Created document. Saved as File1.psd, with about 22 layers. Changed absolutely nothing. Then saved as File2.psd with same layers. Changed absolutely nothing again. Then File3.psd with same layers. On File3.psd, I removed two of the text layers, resaved the document with the same name, then saved as a jpg.
Couple hours later, opened up File3.psd, and it was flattened, just had the single background layer. Opened File1.psd, same thing, the layers were gone, replaced by the single background layer. Ditto for File2.psd.
No mistake was made. I didn't flaten anything, at any time. And I don't understand how making one copy into a jpg could possibly make the other two psd copies flatten at the same time.
I know I am repeating here, but I did NOT, at any time, flatten a single layer, in ANY of the three separate copies of the document.
Even if, somehow, I did, in fact, mistakenly flatten the layers in the third version, how could the other two individually saved versions of the document end up with the same flattening?
Please don't answer this by saying, yet again, that I made an error, because I really didnt. I made three versions very specifically to have a back up in case of any errors. They're not even saved in the same folder on my Mac. One is on a network drive, the other two are in separate folders on the Mac's hard drive.

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