Ghost thumbnails and No files on HD

My iphoto images are suddenly appearing as blank gray ghosts. All the photo data appears to remain saved for each image, but the visual image itself is missing, with only a gray ghost image left behind. Neither the thumbnails nor the full size jpg shows an image.
I cannot locate my iphoto library in the finder or on my harddrive. I've had no success searching for photo titles in the finder. Nor have I had success restoring my thumbnails or orphaned photos.
The triggering events to this failure were: I emptied my iphoto library trash can. Then, I exported a slideshow to quicktime. I burned the quicktime slideshow to a cd-r. Then, when I returned to my computer, I saw nothing but ghosts.
Can anyone help find my images on the harddrive, or share any tips on how to restore the images with the data remaining? Pretty please.

I've had a similar problem, and it's been driving me crazy. Due to limited onboard drive space, I've been keeping my iPhoto library on an external drive.
All was well. I made sure that my external drive was attached whenever I launched iPhoto. One day, I did this as usual and had the ghosts instead of my usual images.
I'm figuring that there's some way to link back to the images or database on my external drive, but I'll be darned if I can figure it out.
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