Cannot open files and projects in Express

Extremely urgent and important for me to be able gain access back to my files and project.  I have almost completed my big project of the year and it must be finished by Monday.  I have 100's of hours in this project. 

The program froze mid typing and would not restore.  I closed it out and restarted it only to find that an error code replaced my prject telling me to return to hompage and try again or restart program.  I did both several times and nothing is working.  Need this sorted out and fixed ASAP.  It will be unacceptable to lose my work.