.PSD File incompatible with Photoshop CS5 after working on it in CS5 for hours

Hi. Sorry If I've posted in the wrong area, but I'm a little flustered and I have not a clue of where to put this. Couldn't find anything related to troubleshooting.
I was working on an Illustration in Photoshop CS5 yesterday; it was a trial version. After hours of work and saving regularly (yes, I'm POSITIVE I saved as a .PSD and did not add any extensions) I decided to get to bed. I woke up today, fired up the CPU, and I'm getting this message every time I try to open this file in either photoshop or windows image viewer;
Adobe Photoshop CS5 extended
Could not complete your request because the file is not compatible with this version of Photoshop.
The computer had been restarted after I had saved last night before I went to bed, and it opened the file just fine. All the other .PSD files from yesterday that I've saved are able to open without a problem.
I only used the brush tool and eraser tool to create the illustrations I worked on yesterday.
I've updated Photoshop CS5 to 12.0.4 after I found this problem. It didn't solve it.
I have not downloaded or installed any files to this CPU since I started work on the illustrations.
I'm running windows 7 64 bit
2.0 GB of Ram
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 1.8 GHz
If anyone needs any information regarding the CPU I'll be more than happy to get them for you; I'm sorry that I don't have all my specs, I'm not very good with computers. I'm sure that If you need something I can fish it out for you. I realize everyone has deadlines to work around; I've tried to get you as much information as possible. Thank you for your time in advance.

Could be a problem with your disk, a problem with the OS, or it could be the wrong file extension on the file.
How large is this file?  If I could take a look at the file, I could probably narrow down the causes.

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