This really is for information but interested if anyone else had this problem.

I had to roll back my Windows XP SP2 machine to (2 back) a version before I installed some software from Yahoo which happened to be just before I added another project. When I opened the Manager all my projects were gone. When I tried to attach it kept asking for Proxy & SPOCKS Proxy settings even though they were not set in options.

I then downloaded the latest version, uninstalled prtevious. I installed the new one and my projects reappeared without attaching. The only problem being that the last project (post restore data) was missing results which it appeared to be less than half way through.

All seems okay, currently waiting on 'Reset Project' for the last project.