Can I recover photo titles after an accidental batch change?

We had about 20,000 photos carefully labeled and organized according to corresponding job numbers.
When iPhoto was opened today, all of the photos were now labeled with the same (recent) job number, a dash and then another unique number as the title. My assumption is that somehow all of the photos in the library were selected when a batch title change was executed with the box "Append a number to each photo" checked.
Does iPhoto create any kind of history for title changes like it does when you modify a photo? Is there any way to recover all of this lost information?
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   Intel

I'm not aware of any feature within iPhoto itself that would help you. But if you regulary back up your iPhoto library, you can recover the title data. They are saved in the file AlbumData.xml in your iPhoto library folder. If you find this file in a backup that was created before the titles were changed, you have a chance of restoring the titles. Now comes the hard part: you need to extract the titles from the XML file, and then use some AppleScript to put them back onto your photos.
There is some good information about the AlbumData.xml file on the iPhoto Library Manager site at:
http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/Documentation/iPLM/pgs/albumdata.html
If you have a backed up copy of that file, I might be able to help you out with some code to re-import the titles. I have Java code to extract the titles from the AlbumData.xml file, and I have AppleScript code to import titles back into iPhoto.

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