All I looked at was the documents folder and it was empty.....yeah I freaked out like a little girl and came running to CP for help
I've done a little research and combined with the few posts above found that it's probably not all lost, and probably not all that hard to get back (knock on wood). I'm going to play around with it this afternoon and I'll report back.
I will also be getting an external hard drive set up asap....something I've been meaning to do for awhile now.