I just got great news! Apparently I found a backed up version of my NyanCoin wallet from when I first started with three addresses on it. Out of those one was empty and the other two ended up being my NyanCoin.Me faucet addresses! Now I just have to reprogram the faucet payment app and I can send money out asap.
The bad news is I lost two hundred thousand Nyan from my newer NyanCoin addresses..
hold onto the hard drive, if Nyan ever becomes really valuable you can send the drive off to drivesavers.com - it's expensive but it's very likely they can recover the data.