Wrong Modified Date on Files

When I tried opening a file on my macbook pro this evening, I was greeting by grayed out, inaccessible files, all with a modified date of January 24, 1984 at 2:00 am. Anyone know what might have caused this and/or how to fix it.
Thanks!

Try dragging the files into a new folder. If there's no change, and you have a backup of the files, restore them. Otherwise post your results.

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}The problems I am getting are:
>
The method listFiles(FilenameFilter) is undefined for the type myClass
and
>
The method put(Object, Object) in the type HashMap is not applicable for the arguments (File, long)
can anyone help? What's the best way to go aobut this?

Thanks for the replies abenstex I modified it so that javaFiles is now a File[] and made the change you suggested but I still have the second problem, here's the code so far:
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
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