Yikes! at your problem, and at still using a voodoo! anyhooo, what method did you use to delete your film files (i.e., wildcard search then delelet all?)? Did you just select the film files? Seems that just deleting film files would not cause ctd's. If you got another file as well, that could be a prob. Your files are not, by chance, in your recycle bin?
since your system runs before ctd, you most likely do not have a file related problem, just one of those coincidents. Add any new software lately? Delete anything else lateley? Change any system settings? How long since defrag? how full is the hard drive?
bockk