SEEKING SERIOUS HELP! iweb files overide content in another folder

I recently published a folder to my desktop from iweb to later upload to an FTP site and then onto my website. When it created this file, it was inserted into another folder already on my desktop and erased all those files. They are nowhere to be found on the entire Hard Drive. I have spoken to mobileme and Applecare and they said they were gone forever???
How did this happen and is there a way of getting them back if I don't use Time Machine?

Dear Wyodor-
NO I did not get a warning that it would replace the previous folder named the same thing, otherwise I wouldn't be in this predicament. Thanks for your ill equipped advice, and by the way Applecare are the ones that told me to call Mobileme, I was questioning the same thing when they told me to do this. Why even bother replying to these discussions if you are only going to criticize people, aren't these for helping people out?
And by the way they are never "erased" from a hard drive merely sitting in space overwritten until you need to use the space for something else then they are gone forever.
Just curious if someone had advice on how to get them back. No need to reply because clearly you are not on here to help people Wyodor.

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