Can't get photos out of the trash?

I just tried using iPhoto Diet on my library (around 10,000 photos & 9GB). It moved a bunch of photos into the Trash that, it turns out, aren't duplicates. So, I want to take them out of the Trash and put them in my main library.
The trouble is, I can't seem to do that. I've created a new folder to put the files into, but when I drag the photos out of the trash the icon never changes to the green "plus" sign that you normally see. I've tried using the "Export..." command but it's greyed out.
Is there any way I can get these photos out of the Trash? I'm a little confused right now! This is iPhoto 6.0.5 under OS X 10.4.8 (PPC).

Hi Terrence,
Sorry, you're right: what I meant was that I couldn't put them back in an Album, not a Folder. Interestingly enough, I just created another Album and tried it again. I selected all the photos (around 900) that were in the iPhoto Trash, then dragged them into my new album.
The cursor turned into the green "plus" icon as if it were ready to let me move the files out of the Trash. Then, strangely, iPhoto didn't draw a black box over the destination album like it normally does. I clicked on the new album I'd just created, and it was empty. Stranger still, it looks like the photos have all been put back in their correct albums?!

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