Ironically, my computer died the day after that post.
My hard-drive was just blank all of a sudden. No boot device or whatever it says when you turn it on, so figured I'd just retrieve what I could then resolve the boot problem. But nothing, my hard-drive was blank!
I had used my USB Flash drive just recently for a large file, so had to take off all my important files, and stored them temporarily onto my computer..... so all gone. But who thinks about backing up a temp backup?
So will I change everything I do? Well no, I am not going to live life making backups of backups of backups.
But that was just such a scary coincidence, and one I just can't explain.