HELP!!! iTunes synced an empty iPhoto library...

HELP HELP HELP!!
I had to take my MacBook to my local Apple Store to get the screen flicker fixed and so I had everything backed up onto my iPod. I used the "Include Full Resolution" option to back up all of my 3000 pictures onto the iPod as well and also had "Enable Disk Use" checked. Therefore, I thought I could plug my iPod into my iMac and access my files that way...
I plugged it in and iTunes open and asks if I want to make this iPod belong to the library on the iMac, to which i said no. However, in the iPod "menu" automatically syncing songs, podcasts, videos, etc. was all unchecked, whereas the iPhoto libary was checked.
I don't have any pics in the iMac library so I suspect it replaced all 3000 with nothing...
Does ANYONE have any ideas at all as to how to resurrect these pics? They are not on my MacBook anymore b/c I told the Genius it was OK to wipe the HD since I had anything important on my iPod.
Anything and everything is appreciated :-D

Although you can set the iPod to manually manage other content, you can't manually manage photos as you've now found out.
Your only hope is some data recovery software as mentioned in this post.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=931813&#931813

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