Calendar Crashes, iPhoto 6.0.3, and Missing Photos, Books, etc.

Last week I was creating a calender in iPhoto 6.0.2. It crashed twice while I was working on it. I submitted the crash logs to Apple and went on working with the calendar. Everything seemed fine.
Last night I upgraded to iPhoto 6.0.3 via Software Update. I checked permissions afterwards, then launched iPhoto 6.0.3 to work on my calendar. ALL of my photos since December 2004 were missing and I also had no books, albums, or calendars in the left side pane. I tried rebuilding the library and nothing changed. I have not yet tried to "recover" lost images.
I'm not sure if the iPhoto 6.0.2 calendar crash did this or the iPhoto 6.0.3 update, or the combination of the two. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get back all of this information? From what I've gathered, it looks like I should try iPhoto Library Manager. That seems to help some people. At the very least I hope to get all my Film Rolls back, but I would like all the other stuff as well.
Yes, I should have a more recent backup than I do, but Apple also needs to make the iPhoto Library data files more robust so it's easier to rebuild this information!

That did indeed recover all my "missing" photos. I guess there just isn't anyway to recover albums, calendards, greeting cards, slideshows, etc. Is that true?
I think I will revert back to my last backup and manually add the 10 or so rolls that I have taken since then. At least that way the only thing I lose is the calendar I was working on during the crash in iPhoto 6.0.2. I also plan on filing a bug on iPhoto with the crash log and the information about it corrupting my iPhoto Library. If iPhoto Library Manager can recover all my photos, then iPhoto itself should definitely be able to!
One other oddity I noticed was the iPhoto Library Manager would say it was importing Film Roll "Joss's Birthday", but then it would NOT actually use that as the name of the Film Roll in the rebuilt library. I figured since it obviously saw the name, it should use it. Maybe I had the preferences configured wrong.
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