Recovering Files From Replaced Folders

I was transfering all my files from one external hard drive to another. Something screwed up the process and only 40G of the 60G were copied. Some of the folders were exact copies, so I was going to replace the incomplete folders on the hard drive with 40G of info with the complete data from the drive with the 60G of info. I accidently started the process by coping one folder from the 40G back onto the 60G. I was asked if I wanted to "replace" the folder. I said yes. Right after I did that I realized my mistake and hit stop. The finder was still "thinking" and no files had actually been copied. However when I went back to find the data in the 60G hard drive the files in the folder were missing. My guess is that all the data is still there, but the directory has been deleated. Is Data Rescue II my only option? Will I have to rebuild my folder one file at a time?
12 inch PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

trohricht, welcome to the forum,
a seemingly difficult situation
You seem to have tried everything that I would have in a similar situation. Do you know the reason why the system isn't booting? Is it an HDD failure or software?
It would be worth scanning the hard drive with Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test in advanced mode. Use another system to create a bootable cd from the iso download available. If the drive is shown to be defective I would clone it immediately, if that can be done, to a new drive and then try to repair the installation on the newly cloned drive.
Not knowing your knowledge of these processes, (but judging by your first post you seem to be pretty savvy), I'll wait for your reply and questions before expanding further.
Regards
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