Help please. This is URGENT.

I had a Zen Cart Installation fully working.. I made some cosmetic changes via the css file. It worked. Then, in the admin I was trying to find where to turn off showing product count. I clicked on, I think, to show the status. It then went to a page that said that either (1) I have not completed my installations of (2) the config file or the admin config file has bad path or db connection information. Via ftp I checked on the timestamp of those files and they are both from when I first installed the Zen Cart on march 22.

How can I recover the access without having to duplicate everything I did?