I updated iPhoto 4 with iPhoto 5 and lost all my photos!

I updated iPhoto 4 with iPhoto 5 and lost all my FRICKIN photos! Anyone else have this problem? If I do a search for img_ I do get about 3800 photos, so they do still seem to exist in various locations with multiple duplicates and/or photos that are different but have the same name. I know if I try moving them all to one location I'll get the message "Do you want to replace?" many many times. Any suggestions?

Mike
This document
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
will help recover the situation.
Regards
TD

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