Cannot see thumbnails or open pictures (even though info is listed)

Recently converted to iMac from PC. Generally very happy with Mac. Last pm, was burning CD's of photos. One month/event (2007-09) had more photos than could fit on one CD (even though only 640 MD listed in folder when burning a CD more MB's seem to be "created" and it was over 700 MB). Used iPhoto command to split event/month in two so could burn two separate CD's. Changed the name of each folder (i.e. 2007-09 a and b) then burned the CD's. Then used iPhoto command to merge folders back to one and changed name back to original name: 2007-09). Everything seemed fine until this AM when we opened iPhoto. The 2007-09 folder listed that it had all 272 pictures and 604MB's under information but no pictures could be seen on the event folder or when looking under photos. Each picture listed all the correct info but no image can be seen and when picture is opened it just showed a grey circle with "!"
I was able to restore the photos from the last saved group from last pm using browse backups/time machine. However, I assume that somehow the actual picture files or pathway was corrupted from the steps I used last pm when trying to set things up to burn a CD. In many years of Windows PC picture and PICASA program use, something like this never happened. While the ability to restore using Time Machine was great and cool, it is very concerning that our original pictures could so easily be "lost" and I assume this represents some flaw in the iPhoto program.
Did I do something wrong or is there a flaw in iPhoto that easily leads to file corruption? How do I prevent this from happening again?

RecentConvert1
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Changed the name of each folder (i.e. 2007-09 a and b) then burned the CD's.
So how (and where) did you do this?
Each picture listed all the correct info but no image can be seen and when picture is opened it just showed a grey circle with "!"
The ! or ? turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents. And yes, the most common way to do this is to change the path to the file, or rename some element in the path.
The pics should be safe and sound in the iPhoto Package File.
Regards
TD

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