oh yes ...that is where the files were/are located....but like I said I had moved my game...I kept trying to paste the back ups into a different folder and hadn't made the mental connection that I needed to find the orignial location. it was MY Bad...not yours. It was a statement in a post of yours to someone who didn't want to keep those particular files in "My Documents" and you eluded to it being a "highly technical necessity" :-)
Anyway...reading that was what made the light go on for me so thank you.
It's all good now and I am back on Isola control the destiny of all my little villagers. heh heh heh