>Hopefully this experience will spur you on to using a better backup process on your source code
>as well as considering using something like SourceSafe.

Well, since David beat me to suggesting SourceSafe, I'll point at Vault's free single-user license. One of these days I'll actually remember to download it at home and see how they compare...

http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=252