Jpg recovery after iphoto file movement?

Being a new Mac guy and totally ignorant of iphoto, I moved one of my iphoto files. I moved it back. Now those photos show up in iphotos as thumbnails (small photos) only. When selecting the thumbnails I get a prepetual little spinning wheel icon and the large photos do not appear. I did this blunder after I filled up my camera flash card and have no backup of the photos.
I suspect those photos reside somewhere on my Mac. Any ideas how they can be recovered? I tryed burning to a disk and got only grey squares symbolic of photos.
I will check this forum later. Been up too long working on this issue.
Good Night/Good morning.
John

I'm having a similar problem. I deleted a number of duplicates from the general "library," renamed several photos there, and consolidated a number of photos from two albums to one, suddenly all manner of problems including crashing and loading only the grey square outlines of the photos. I, too, can see only some photos at only certain size thumbnails, and when I select one to view, the "perpetual little spinning wheel." Only under the "Help" menu's "Solving Problems" does it say "Don't tamper with photos in the library." A bit late once you've needed to enter the "Solving Problems" area. Why does the program allow you to change and delete items in the library if that's a recipe for disaster? It shouldn't be an option if it's known to lead to this kind of thing. And what does "Help" recommend you do to solve the problem of having moved them? No recommendation!
Has anyone recovered their entire photo library and brought iPhoto back to normal operation after having done this?
Thanks,
Jordan
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) </

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