Help! Photos vanishing from library....

I began to comb through my iPhoto library to compile a best of 2005 slideshow, and noticed that random groups of photos are gone. I've checked the trash (which has never been emptied), I've gone and looked through the entire library, and I've navigated through finder to the iPhoto library folder within the home directory to see if there are any trace of them there. Nothing. This, of course, is very irritating. It seems to be entire imports that are gone. I have about 10,000 images in the library...and have been backing it up by copying the library folder to an external drive. Unfortunately my last backup reflects what I am seeing on my library as well.
I'm assuming there is no magic fix (but if there is, please let me know). I was hoping someone might know why this has happened and how to prevent it from occuring in the future. I know that I've had to force quit iPhoto at times...but photos I'm missing had been well after a force quit occurred.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Alan

I just discovered a similer problem. I'm running a g4 powerbook with the lateset version of tiger and iphoto. I just opened my iphoto and discovered that a huge amount of my photos have disapeared from my library. They are still on my hard drive but don't show up in iphoto. All of my albums are still there but they all show up as empty.
Right before this happened all I did was open the program.
Please help.

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