Complete loss of photos

hello all,
Any help would be greatly appreciated here.
Am running an iMac with Os x 10.4.11. I had approx 2000 photos in my iPhoto '08 library.
One day, I notice all the thumbnails are blank and the library meta data tells me I have hundreds of events and 2000+ photos - yet it is not possible to see any of these. This happened four weeks ago.
now realising the photos are in trouble I now set about finding them. I have followed these steps;
Disk utility found an error on my disk - ran Utilities from the boot disk and repaired the main drive. Repair was successful.
Created a new library in iPhoto - no improvement, meta data says library is empty.
Downloaded iPhoto Library Manager - no change, pictures still missing.
Downloaded Stellar Phoenix 3.5 and set a sector by sector search. Found 700+ jpegs including album art & mac images, some pictures recovered. No other jpegs1,2, or 3 to be found.
I am assured the photos were not deleted maliciously by another user and suspect the work done in repairing the drive may have impaired my chances of recovering the files.
I would like to know how this happened and more importantly if there are any options available to find the missing pictures, and No, I don't have Time Machine yet.
Any help appreciated.

Then I'm afraid your photos are gone.
The question is what removed them from there?
This wasn't done by iPhoto
... the library meta data tells me I have hundreds of events and 2000+ photos...
as iPhoto thinks they are still there. You need to search out a 3rd party culprit - human or software - for this. I'd start with any back up software you have running on the machine.
You can also check for recovering the files from the HD using an app like File Salvage
Regards
TD

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