AVI files unplayable on iPhoto 9.0

Most of my AVI files which use to play fine on iphoto have been converted to 0.01 second files showing up on iPhoto!  These files are all prior to 2010 (2002 to 2009) and show under iPhoto Library/originals/2009.  Under Originals I have three folders for 2009, 2010, 2011.  The prior year avi files show up under 2009 as small files (probably thumbnail) all less than 150K!  The folders which contain 2010 and 2011 avi files work fine and are large in the MB range in size.  What happened to the avi files that were in my other folder (actual large files!)?  I run OS X 10.6.8 and do the usual updates and just noticed these files changed in the last four weeks.
Thanks

What seems to be happening there is that the videos have been replaced by jpegs created as previews of them.
How this happened, I've no idea. Time to restore from your back up.
Regards
TD

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