Retrieving a Deleted Word Document

Hopefully this is the right forum-please direct me if not.
I had a Word document on a 4gb cruzer flash drive. It was called "Andrew." I worked on my friend's old iBook G3 running 10.3.9. (I also worked on it on my own iMac G5.)
When I brought the drive to work and tried to open the Andrew file on my Windows XP PC - I had done this with no problem many times before - I could not open it. I brought it home and opened it on the iBook - but it was an empty page - 0kb.
Now, alongside the file was a second file that was named "._Andrew". I foolishly deleted this file, and after that the problems started.
My question is, isn't there a way to turn back the clock on the OS and retrieve this file in the version that I was last working on, on the iBook? What are my options?
Thanks for ANY help - can't believe after all these years, I finally got nailed and lost a really important file.

Hello Andrew,
Remember, that you should not use the affected drive at all until you recover the file/s as they may become further written over if you continue using your computer.
You may want to check with one of the third party data recovery softwares such as Data Rescue II to see if it is still recoverable. Most of these recovery softwares I believe offer a free trial to see if you can at least see so many MB of files that you wish to recover. You should be able to find DataRescue on Version Tracker or MacUpdate.
hope that helps some,
littleshoulders

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