I'm an idiot. accidentally deleted library. any way to recover?

i should know better. i had moved my library to my desktop while i was rebuilding it earlier in the week. because i had a copy in my finder shortcuts, i assumed wrongly that the folder on my desktop was also a copy. and so, of course, when cleaning up my desktop i trashed it, and then emptied trash, and only began to freak when over 2000 files were being deleted.
is it absolutely gone? or is there a way to recover my deleted library. i have most of it backed up on another computer, but most recent additions haven't been backed up yet.
help? still running 5.

Bananie
First off, do nothing else until you attempt the recovery. Every time you save a file you risk the possibility of some more of your data getting overwritten.
You'll need a File Recovery utility. I've had very good results with File Salvage in a very similar situation. You can read about it here:
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
There are other utilities that do this kind of work, you can read about alternatives here:
http://www.versiontracker.com and search with 'file recovery' or 'unerase'.
Hope this helps
Regards
TD
MacBook Pro 15 2.16gig / iMac G5 20   Mac OS X (10.4)   2 gig RAM/ 1 gig RAM

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