Account Picture...is it really lost??

When my wife got her iMac in August of 2006, we snapped a great photo during the setup of her account. I was messing around in photobooth yesterday and seem to have overwritten the account picture associated with her account.
I have checked library\caches and her image com.apple.user502pictureCache.tiff has yesterday's date where mine has a date in 8/07.
Is there any way to get the Account photo back? I do not have a backup of the data in the caches folder and the image originally captured was done as part of the account setup rather than from photobooth (were i have backed up all these photos). I also read that Tiger does not have a time machine feature to zap the system to a previous date/state. Are there any other options to get this image back?
THx!
Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

It sounds like the file is gone. Sorry.
Now is a good time to start a backup regimen. I duplicate my whole hard drive to an external drive daily. I also maintain an archival backup with Retrospect to a third drive. I have used this to recover user pictures that I had accidentally overwritten.
Remember that hard drives can fail at any time without notice, destroying all of your data forever. So if your data is important to you, be sure to have backups!

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