Hey Milt,
How did you do the "restore?"
These are freeware programs that you can use to find the old files:
There are programs that can find those old files.
If you look on the web site under data recovery you can try one of these programs to find the old files:
http://www.ramsinks.com/software/
I used this program to clean up the registery on my computer, it helped speed things up a bit:
(THIS IS A DIRECT LINK TO DOWNLOAD REGSCRUB XP)
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/majorgeeks/registry/regscrubxpsetup_3.2.exe