Deleted certificate request

Hi,
I hope someone can help with this.

The certificate request for a client/server certificate I was registering 
through verisign was deleted before the certificate was imported. This means 
when I try to import the certificate I get the error "No request key is
found for the certificate" (unsurprisingly). However, I have the certificate 
request used to register this certificate saved in a file what I want to know 
is can this be imported into the certificate store to enable the certificate to 
be imported?

Looking on IBM's site their solutions to this error message are import the 
certificate into the store it was created in (i.e. you've selected the wrong 
store) or generate a new request and register a new certificate. Is there 
really no way to use the saved request to recover?

Cheers,
Richard