IMovie files gone after a crash

Ok this is ******* me off all night already and I am about to throw my mac off the window...
This whole night I've been working on this music video and my iMovie encountered 2 crashes because of audio files error, both times I open it up the files are gone except for the ones I've already exported to YouTube. I am running the latest version of iMovie on Mavericks, a MacBook Pro Version 10.9.2. The funny thing is it indicates "All projects - 1 of 3 selected" while it only shows 2 exported projects, then where is the 3rd one? Because the 3rd one is the one I am working on and they took it away >< help me, please, all my hard work of 5 hours gone to... gone to I don't even know where!!!!
Rex Yiu
HK

Not sure what Apple IS stands for and have no clue how to find mine.
Looking through my file and the box my computer came in and I don't have restore disks or codes for Mac or anything. (I do have the disks and codes for the Office:mac which Geek Squad also installed at purchase.)
I found the booklet that came with the computer. On the first page I find the title:
"Welcome to your MacBook Pro" and the facing page says, "OS X Lion" and pictures/descriptions of things I'm assuming came with the computer. It has Mission Control, Launchpad, Mac App Store, Mail, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand.
It makes me aware I should also have back iChat, iMovie and Garage Band (I hadn't missed those because I rarely used them) but those are missing too and used to be here.

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