Uh oh I think I killed my pictures

using iPhoto 4 I did an export of the entire library to a single folder on the mac - about 1000 pictures
I then copied the folder to a USB drive
I took the USB drive to a windows PC and observed that there were twice as many files. There was one file that started with a period for each file, plus the original file. I then wiped the Mac and restored the OS clean.
After reinstalling the Mac OS, I mounted the thumb drive on the Mac and copied the photos back onto the Mac.
I then tried to re-import the picture files into i-photo and only about 60 photos successfully imported.
Any ideas as to how I can get the rest of the photos to import?

Hi, aflat. Yep, any time you wipe your hard drive without first confirming that the backups you've made are all good, you risk losing data.
Backing up Mac files on PC-formatted media is a very bad idea unless you take special precautions. The PC-DOS file system has no place in it for some of the data structures used by many Mac files; that data is either lost entirely or separated from the main file when such a file is written to a DOS-formated disk. When you copy the file back to the Mac, the separated or discarded data is missing and the file is seen as corrupt.
Plain JPEG files shouldn't suffer this problem: JPEG is a cross-platform file format that doesn't put anything into the "resource fork" provided in the Mac file system. But it may be that when iPhoto exports your library, it adds something there — and if you then write the file to a DOS volume, the DOS file system deletes whatever was added, making the file unreadable by iPhoto after you copy it back into the Mac file system later. This is speculation on my part; I don't know all the ins and outs. I am quite certain, however, that your problems arise from having used a DOS volume to back up Mac files.
Do the photos that iPhoto can't re-import open OK in Preview, GraphicConverter, or other photo viewing and editing applications? Do they still have .jpg filename extensions? If you can still open the pictures in other applications, there is hope for getting them back into iPhoto.
In the future, if you must back Mac files up to a DOS volume, put them all into a folder and use OS X's "Create Archive" command to compress them all into a .zip archive. Then copy that to the DOS volume. Don't decompress it or open it on a PC: doing so will destroy many of the Mac files inside. Copy the .zip archive back to the Mac unchanged, decompress it, and everything inside will be intact.

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