Premiere CS4 Project lost - Windows 7

Hello there,
I have been working on a wedding video for weeks, just when i was about to finish the last few seconds, already done the color correction and such, the next day when i try to turn on the computer again. I first used Photoshop to batch and resize the image i was gonna use for the final slideshow clip for the video, then i used After Effects CS4, done the slideshow and exported the video. So I was gonna go back to the original project i was working on for weeks, to import the slideshow i just have done and finish the whole clip, when I opened the Premiere CS4, I just realized the project is no longer there, along other project I started weeks ago.
I think this is Windows 7's fault, since the project's saved location is at My documents, under Adobe's Premiere's folder, I guess somehow they got deleted or the system just recovered the old setting? No idea. But I am so frustrated that I worked weeks on the video wedding that I am not happy with the footage I shot, and was a pain in the *** to select the clips and got them in the place.. Seems now I have to start all over? Is there anyway to recover that lost project file?

I thught you may had the same problem as me.
It happen to me, that I thought I got lost all my project, because I was able to open it, but I couldn't see anything in my timeline. The timeline was closed, so I went to the menu "window" and reopened "timeline", but no content and no channels were there: no video, no audio and I couldn't open new channels. So I thought I lost everything. I try to drag into the timeline my sequence (default name "sequence 01)", but nothing happen. There must be some shortcut near control+S to save, that do this.
But I found the solution. If I double click on "sequence 01" on the window with all the files contained in the project ("Project window", shortcut Shift+1), everything comes back.
I hope this can help other people looking for solutions.
here the answer I found:
So you lost the Timeline Window? Is it a bug, an oversight, or did they do it to us on purpose??
In Adobe Premiere Pro, the Timeline options disappear from the Window menu if you accidentally close the timeline window. If you lose the timeline window, you have to hunt around for a way to open it. Some of the keyboard shortcuts actually crash Premiere when the timeline window is closed.
I found that the easiest way to open the timeline window is to look in your Project Window for a sequence file. The default sequence is named Sequence 01. Double-click the sequence, and the timeline window magically reappears.

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