3nigm4tic

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Alright, here's the situation. And sorry it's long, I'm trying to be detailed.

I'm trying to recover a Word file for my gf that's about 18 pages long. Im reasonably confidant that I've figured out how the file was removed, but Im not so sure how to recover it.

1) began editing a version of the document (about 8 pages)
2) saved a version of this document with the same name to a different folder
3) finished editing document. Now there is one 18 page, and one 8 page document, with the same name, in different folders
4) copied original (8 page) document to new folder, overwriting new (18 page) document

I have tried

A) UnDelete, a program off the web that recovers deleted files. It didn't work assumedly because the file wasn't deleted in a conventional manner, ie. sent to the recycle bin, and/or because a file with that name still existed
B) System Restore to a point about midway through the editing process. This produced one interesting anomaly. When the (still 8 page) document was opened, Word gave me some sort of side-bar about a different version of the file that appeared larger in size, and seemed like it might be a more recent update. But when i tried to open it, Windows told me the file no longer existed. (presumably, the pointer to the file was changed)
C) Searching for all files updated in the past several days, to make sure the name or extension wasnt drastically changed by accident

So, I'm reasonably sure that if I had the necessary tool, the file will still be intact (since no major installations or anything would have overwritten what *should* still be an intact, though unreachable, area of the Hard Disk).

Is there a program or method that will find something like an overwritten or otherwise unreachable file? I know professional data recovery people do this kind of thing, but that's a bit drastic...

Any help or suggestions, and/or a pointer to a good, active technical forum would be excellent.