Suddenly Alias!?!?

When I switched from my G4 to my MacBook Pro in late 2009 I had transferred all my files to an old backup drive then transferred everything again to a new, smaller back up drive (Free Agent Go). Last December, I opened a folder which contained some word files. I recently went to open the file again and now it is an alias. It is still located on my back up drive and was clearly there last December (and I haven't needed it since then) but now when I try to open the file it says that it can't be located! I have no idea why this suddenly became and alias but does anyone know how to recover the files that are in this folder??!?!?
Please help!!!
Thanks

Hey
I looked before and it is saved on my back-up drive as is...I was afraid that this meant that it was lost forever but hoped someone would have some magic information about a secret place it may be kept on my computer. Do you (or anyone!) have and ideas of how this happened?!!???!
Thanks
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I've just been doing business as usual. Last thing I did was import several photos last week. Today, I open up the library and find that the original files have all been magically changed to alias. I could work with them up to a point, could even open them in an external editor. But as I worked, I lost even that. I find that this corruption has moved back several events - but not through the whole library. I need to know why this is happening, and if there is some way to re-designate these as original files. The data is there - or was five minutes ago. My back-up, so responsibly done last week, is corrupted too, now. I can see the thumbnails, and as I said, could actually work with the data. For a while. This is really stupid. Why would the files suddenly be alias files? iPHoto 8 7.5.1

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Ali,
Sorry for being slow to respond. I have been trying to get things fixed with Repair Disk.
To answer your question first, my hard drive is 74.52 GB, with 55.59GB available, so I don't think that's the problem.
Quite a few things (but not everything) work once the hard drive boots, which is VERY VERY slow. However, any other media I try to use to backup (Memory sticks, CDs) can't be recognized. I get the "disk containing no volumes that Mac OS X can read" messae. The CD's also produced a message when I tried to name them of an "unexpected error."
I followed your repair instructions, but it did not solve the problem. The Repair Disk effort produced an error message under "Checking catalog file" of "Keys out of order." I ran Repair Disk multiple times (at least 10x), but the same message kept coming up. I also tried running Repair Permissions, which took about four hours to run. Repair Disk produced the same error message.
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That message string also talked about some people having problems after installing iTunes 6.0.2, but I am running 7.0.2, and it has been on the computer about two weeks beforre any of this started.
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