ILife '06 upgrade deleted hundreds of movies imported from my camera

Yes, precious irreplaceable movies of our baby. Yes, I have a backup. But what if I didn't?
The thumbnails remain in iPhoto for the now-vanished movies, but the associated .AVI files have been obliterated from the iPhoto Library.
I guess I would warn anyone with camera movies to avoid this upgrade until this is fixed. How best to bring this to Apple's attention?

I'm sorry this sounds like a snappy answer, but it wasn't meant to be one. If your photos and movies are truly irreplaceable, like mine are, "But what if I didn't" is way too hypothetical for me.
Even if iPhoto was guaranteed bug-free, what if your drive failed? Or your computer was stolen? There's no end of reasons for having backups. Burn a pair of data DVD's of your library of photos and movies and store at least one away from home. Keep another copy on a backup hard drive. At any given instant, the chance of losing both backups is very very small.
Digital photos are much more easy to back up than negatives or prints/slides. I would do it for irreplaceables regardless of any guarantee against failure (which does not exist for consumer software as far as I know)

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