Batches of pictures disappearing- from iPhoto folder as well as the viewer!

I've got a real ghost in the machine... twice in the last week, i have had a whole series of images completely disappear not just from the iPhoto library/viewer, but from the folders in iPhoto's home folder (both "originals" and "modified"). They are NOT in the Trash... there are still photos in iPhoto's trash that were there before, it hasn't been emptied.
Each time, about 60 photos, all in sequence, simply vanished. The first time, i still had the images on the cam card so i just re-uploaded them. But this time, i'd deleted the images from the cam... and was in between backups, so they are just gone.
in the iPhoto home folder, there are gaps in the numbering of the "rolls".. it will go from Roll 437 to Roll 439, with no 438, for example. Is that normal?.
the iMac has been having crashes where it wakes from sleep with most of the screen black, just fragmented video across the top, and frozen/SBOD. Usually the only way out is to shut it down with the power button and reboot (sometimes, i can get away with unplugging the Intuous tablet or other periphs and waking it up again).
Could this have something to do with disappearing images (and god knows what else is missing)? when i look in the iMac's trash, it has several Recovered Files folders from crashes. In each, there is a folder called iPhoto, but it is empty.
ps, i just counted the gap in the picture numbering sequence, and i am missing over 150 pictures, all in sequence and probably from one upload... except that ONE of the images, from the middle of the sequence, is still there...!
(This is so strange!).
the other set of lost pictures was also from a single upload i think.
Message was edited by: lisajoy

I have been having the same issue I think. My Halloween roll disappeared sometime after I had uploaded most of it to MobileMe. 3/4 of my web galleries show gray outlines and run times (for movies), but no picture of movie. Sometimes it's the whole gallery, sometimes just a series of 4-10 shots.
Tried 'show in finder' and it went to empty dated folders. This is happening on both my iMac and MBP.
I can't say exactly how many photos have vanished from my iPhoto library, but I believe it's around 50-100. I have started to save the photos on my backup drive before importing in iPhoto, but i'd rather find a solution to get these photo-stealing poltergeists out of my machines.
Any ideas?

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