My understanding is Bitcoin Client changed to Bitcoin QT further down the track. The Bitcoin QT interface doesn't look right to me. Wasn't till I found Bitcoin Client interface did the penny drop.
Any Bitcoin client that was used MAY have issued some words after creating the wallet as a recovery for password only feature.
What time of year approximately did you use the client?
You can check older versions here (source code, requires compiling):
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags?after=v0.3.6A reasonably uneducated guess would be from August - November 2010. Cheers for the information not exactly sure what to do with it but rest assured I will definitely explore this avenue. Plan on getting a new computer for everything Github related. That can be done pretty quick once I figure out whats possible with the "older version". Could it be possible that password is enough to recover wallet or am I missing something?
Right now I'm of the belief that regenerating PGP keys using the 8 words I know & password then running algorithms on them to give me private address which were then somehow encrypted is one way to do it.
Public adress then gives wallet address. Private address gives 64 bit hexadecimal somehow but lets face it I don't really know what I'm talking about just working from what I've read.