Pictures Missing from iPhoto after upgrade to Snow Leopard

Timeline:
To start at the end of the story, I installed Snow Leopard the other day and now I can't find my iPhoto Library. My Time Machine backup doesn't show it either and given my history and length of using macs, I should be ashamed of myself for not doing an additional back-up and verifying its contents.
We have a large iPhoto collection that from time to time has been archived and a new library created. In February '09 I moved the current iPhoto libary to an external portable hard drive and triple backed the whole thing up.
At some point this summer (2009), it appears that a camera was connected or iPhoto was opened without the external hard drive connected and iPhoto created a new library. Photos were imported to this library and the external was set aside. I believed (should have verified) that Time Machine was backing this new library up.
I backed up to Time Machine and then installed Snow Leopard when I first received it. When I went to open iPhoto, it can't find anything but an older iPhoto Library (from 2007) that had been stored on the desktop. Time Machine backups from prior to the move to the external drive are intact, but it doesn't appear that Time Machine ever backed up the newly created Summer '09 iPhoto Library. It was on the laptop's hard drive without backup and Snow Leopard deleted it in some fashion. I have done every scan imaginable and all of the videos and photos do not show up in the current directory.
So.
1. I understand that I deserve to be shot for my management of this.
2. Always verify your backups.
3. What should I do now? I have stopped using the machine so I don't write over the pictures that are likely still on the drive, but not on the directory. I have contacted Apple. Although they are looking into the problem, I don't expect much help. Should I use recovery software? What do people recommend? What are the steps to run it?
Thanks for reading this, if you take the time.
Andy

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