Cool, thanks so much  

LMAO, I'm such an idiot  - forgive me for wasting your precious time. I appreciate your responses. There is a symbol in my password that I can input differently on another device and I was doing that in Windows. Everything's cool now. Flu + small brain = doing dumb shit.

TryNinja: I was trying to use seed in Electrum (for main network) but could not find an option. When I open it there's just a install wizard that prompts for a password - couldn't see a way to use seed. Would you mind telling me how to do that incase it comes up again?

Hi All! I have been using Electrum for about a month, there are a few transactions on my default wallet but today I'm having real problems with it. I installed with their Windows Installer file from their website. I logged in using my password, got a receiving address and then transferred some BTC to my wallet. It got 6 confirmations and I was about to transfer elsewhere but couldn't because it said my password was now invalid. Tried several times but it has just decided my password no longer works. Maybe foolishly I tried logging out and in again but now, predictably, I can't get into the wallet at all. When I use regular Electrum .exe file it takes me to an install wizard which no longer accepts my password. There are no other options.
I opened the Electrum Testnet file, went to file then new/restore to put in my seed and hopefully restore the wallet. The seed is correct; when setting up the wallet I wrote it down and then typed it when asked to confirm. The default wallet opened here confirms my seed is correct under when I go into wallet options but there is nothing in the wallet. Transaction history and my BTC is gone. Just looks like a brand new wallet.
Anyone know what's going on here? I went onto Electrum's site hoping to get some tech support but there was just a link here and an FAQ page which I didn't find helpful. I put money into an account and then the encrytion shuts me out! Any support that you can give me would be appreciated. I have tried reinstalling but the outcome was the same.