Accessing / Exporting photo previews ?

Hello,
I inadvertently deleted around 600 photographs.
All I have left are the corresponding previews stored in LR 3's preview file.
Does anyone know if it is possible to "export" or access these previews and turn them into new photo files (jpeg or dng) ?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Pierre

The reason everyone is telling you different ways to try and find your originals (undelete, trash, etc), is that even when you recover the images from the preview files, they will only have the resoultion of what you created.
The "normal" preview is often very small compared to large pixel images.
If you created them as 1:1 previews, then you're in luck, at least as far as getting as much as you can back. If you didn't, then better luck next time!
Cheers!

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