Recovery of files

I just made a huge mistake which I am embarressed about! I was copying some movies over from my Mac to an external drive and when asked if I wanted to "replace" the original directory I clicked "yes". I figured, that like the PC, it would basically just add the new folders into the old folder on the external drive. How wrong I was! It deleted the previous directory and replaced it with the new one.
So my question is: How do I recover these files?

[Data Rescue II|http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php]
[FileSalvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1]
Both have free trial versions that let you see if the software will help before you decide to buy. You will also need a second hard drive equal to or larger in size than your first drive.
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