I just installed iphoto '06, all 3400 of my photos are missing HELP!

I went to my friendly apple store to visit the resident genius because all of the sudden I couldn't get my photos to open in photoshop elements (I had been able to prior) and I'm working on a huge project. He suggested that I would benefit greatly by simply buying iLife '06 and that it would also correct the problem. BIG MISTAKE. I have just finished installing. The installation was flawless. No messages. No problems. But when I went to iphoto...no photos. Just the dotted outlines and titles of photos. And I still can not open them in photoshop elements. It's probably been a photoshop problem all along, although genius boy thought iphoto. I actually do think I may have most of my 3400 photos backed up on cd somewhere around here...Can anyone advise, does anyone know why this happens? And why the apple folks aren't warning us with HUGE bright neon lights????
g4 Mac OS X (10.4.4) also have a imac G5

For starters, please clarify for us what you mean by: "all of the sudden I couldn't get my photos to open in photoshop elements"
If you start PSE (what version?) and try to "Open" an image file from the "File" menu, what happens?

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