kristiane66,
i did this for a customer with a similar problem,
may be kind of a weird way to do it,
BUT, it worked, try this:
are you using xp/vista?
if so,
use your 'roll-back / recover / restore' function,
in other words,
go back to the day before you did the 'lame' copy-paste-save thing,
B-U-T
make sure anything you've done since is backed up,
because it sure will be gone!!!