Can no longer view photo library, after power fail (during LR upload)

Good day.
My computer power failed during a LR3, beta2 upload.
After restarting, I can no longer see any of the images in my library (~50k images) that were not part of the upload...but they are still there. In the 'grid' screen, gray boxes appear, but instead of images within those gray boxes, I see lighter gray portrait/landscape rectangles.
I'm certain that the images are there, but I can only see the images if I am in the 'develop' window, 1 image at a time.
I am hesitant to reinstall lightroom, as I do not want to loose my LR catalog (and have not backed up in a bit...yes yes, I know).
Any help would be greatly appreciated*
Thanks!

Those are the classic symptoms of a corrupted preview cache. There is a folder named <whatever>previews.lrdata that lives next to your lightroom catalogue which is named <whatever>.lrcat. Delete the .lrdata folder (and all its sub-folders) (but NOT the catalogue file!) and restart lightroom. It will rebuild your preview cache, and all will be well.
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