Client troubles

Hey - I'm having all kinds of difficulty with the client. I'm thinking Kanye's out to get me at this point.

Issue #1 - I had a wallet with a clutch of coin. I installed a wallet on a thumb drive and discovered that it was pulling the blockchain and wallet from the C: drive. So, I changed the datadir and successfully made myself a thumbdrive wallet. I went to bed and everything was good. Two wallets. When I woke up, I was horrified to find that my original wallet (loaded with coin) had vanished. There was nothing in the recycle bin. Just gone!

Question: If I have the address, account name and encryption code, is there a way to get that wallet back?  Or is there a way to send the money from that wallet?

Issue #2 - So....I set up another wallet on my desktop, since I'm not sure if Issue #1 got hacked or if I accidentally deleted the wallet.  I set it up using the same passphrase -- I thought.  Then, when I tried to send some sweet Coinye, I found out that the passphrase isn't correct. *sigh*

So....any ideas about how to hack your own stupid Coinye wallet?