Help! Deleting Photos in Aperature also deleted in iPhoto

I have recently started using Aperture and I want to use it with my "professional" photos and continue to use iPhoto for my "personal" photos. I already had a lot of professional photos in iPhoto, so I decided that the easiest way to bring the ones I needed into Aperture was to import all of my iPhoto libraries into Aperture, and then delete the unnecessary personal photos. At this point I don't remember if I decided to store the files "in the Aperture Library" or "in their current location".
After importing I deleted a few photos and then opened iPhoto to make sure those photos were still safe in the iPhoto library. Seeing the thumbnails for the images, I was fooled into thinking that the image was still in my iPhoto library. So off I went for several days deleting and organizing photos. About 4,000 deleted (and trash emptied) photos later, I realized my error, that I had been in fact deleting photos from both my Aperture library AND my iPhoto library.
So, what is the easiest way to get my photos back? I'm assuming I need some sort of un-erase software, any recommendations? Also, is there an easy way to sort out the mess of files I will be un-erasing or will I have to manually look at all of them and figure out which iPhoto library (I have one for each year) they belong in?

What version of iPhoto do you have?
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 08* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Or restore from your back up. You have a back up, of course.
Regards
TD

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