How do I recover lost photos from iPhoto?

Help!!! I had all my honeymoon pistures in iphoto.  My computer started to malfunction due to a ram issue.  Long story short I "backed up" all my stuff to a western digital 250gb hard drive and re installed lion.  They are not on my external Hard Drive nor laptop anymore.  Does anyone know how I can ge these back?  Ill take any suggestions.

Hello, thank you sooooo much for such quick replies.   Pretty much what originally happened was I was trying to make an imovie, i movie wouldnt load.  I call mac support and they deleted some sort of "plist" in imovie, that didnt do anything, so at that point, they said to re install lion.  I backed everything on to my external hard drive by doing just a drag and drop, I erased everything from the laptop hard drive (in disk utility) and re installed it.  Did not work, brought it back to apple, which we than replaced the RAM.  That fixed everything, and I now re installed everything.  When I went to bring my photos back on from my external drive.  They were not there.  Its weird because I created another user, and looked on the hard drive under the other new user account, and there is a different folder there.  Doesnt have any of my pics, but says hawaii, with data001, data002 and so on.  I am wondering if it is because I have different RAM when I saved them on the other HD ( dont think so though).  Do these recovery programs work?

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