Perfect end to a shitty day (coughing fit every other minute == not good, sleeping maybe four hours at the very most because of said coughing fits == really bad), my computer crashed badly and chewed up some folders on my HD. No problems, all recoverable and/or rebuildable (thank fuck it didn't touch my mp3 folder), except one, the most important... the Trillian folder. It left, ironically enough, the program and the basic options intact: it only ate the contact list and logfiles.
I broke into tears of course ^^; Maybe it's silly of me, but I had years of conversations with friends in those logfiles, and I hated losing them. Not to mention that my contact list has 70+ people in it, and rebuilding it would have been hell.
I tried using a recovery software on this computer, no dice... nothing recoverable. Then I had the idea of using the recovery software on my old computer, which used to have Trillian with my full contact list and everything and had sat practically untouched since I had uninstalled it there.
After half an hour or so of fiddling, I managed to recover the contact list and program preferences. Phew. I still lost the logfiles though, which sucks ;_;