IPhone Photos disappeared

I shoot A LOT with my iPhone.
Yesterday my iPhone died, after re-charging it i turned it back on. It said "re-building photo library", once it was done. 2 months worth of pictures were gone, including a family vacation album.
really really frustrated and don't know what to do. I tried sync my phone with iTunes, nothing. all the same.
My wallpaper is a recent picture that i took, it still shows up.
any ideas, how to access the files inside my phone? i imagine those files are still there somewhere.
any help is greatly appreciated.
thank you
Message was edited by: carlo vega

I lost all of my camera roll when I updated to iOS4.0. Fortunately, there is a way to recover them... It took two days to figure it out, but it was a total lifesaver.
1. The iPhone backup files are located in Users/[Name]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. So long as you backed up fairly recently, you are OK! Unfortunately they are in encrypted mySQL format
2. I had backed up since the update, making things harder, but was able to recover my old backup files from Time Machine
3. A utility for reading the backup files can be found at: http://supercrazyawesome.com/ (I don't make any promises about this application, it's not mine. But given what's at stake, I thought it worth the risk...)
4. Recover the iOS Files directory
5. Your photos are in the Media/DCIM folder
Thankfully, I got back all of my last 2 months photos including my son's birthday photos!
I hope this helps.

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