Help please!!! first ever mac. Photos are there but can't see them

Please help got mac last week and promptly put all photos into iphoto 8 also uploaded new photos from holiday which created a few events based on dates.
As we went with friends i created a new event and dragged the pictures involving them into the new event folder which i had named. Then i went to burn them to a disc and they all dissappeared, but they didn't really, all the thumbnails are white i have found them going through finder and search for the file name i can see the picture, well both because it has obviously copied them, and if i drag the new event out of iphoto the pictures appear but the folder doesn't drag to the desktop.
I really don't know what to do. I have tried a few of the various answers to similar posts but nothing is working, i really would like these photos as i was the only one who took a camera, and i think i said this is my first ever mac so just getting used to how different it is.

Hammie
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums and to the Mac
1 - the first rule is never, never, never mess with your iPhoto library using the finder or any program except iPhoto (or one that is fully iPhoto aware like iphoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ )
dragged the pictures involving them into the new event folder which i had named.
Did you do this in iPhoto or in the finder?
Have you tried rebuilding your iPhoto library - launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) and command (apple) keys and rebuild the library and thumbnails
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