IPhoto 09 originals disappeared after Aperture 3 import

*My situation as it used to be:*
Aperture 2 contained my iPhoto library as referenced masters. All was good.
*My current situation:*
After updating to Aperture 3, I decided to import all of my iPhoto files so I'd have a single library with all my photos. Like some other people, I ran into strange issues with only some of my photos being successfully imported. This led me to try to import my iPhoto library several times, both using "Import > iPhoto Library…" and the media browser. I also rebuilt my iPhoto library (by holding down cmd + opt while opening the program) a couple of times, and eventually gave up, thinking it might get fixed in a future update.
Now, a few weeks later, further inspection reveals that a significant portion of my iPhoto images have in fact been deleted. Specifically, I've still got all 1437 thumbnails, but only 200 or so of the actual images. The ones I've got, I have both in the "Originals" and "Modified" directories, but like I said, more than a thousand are missing. I don't know how or when this happened, but it's not how it used to be, so I can only assume that it has something to do with my escapades described above.
Unfortunately, I've backed up after attempting to consolidate these libraries, so the situation is the same on my sole backup drive. I know I should have redundant backups, but I don't.
I've got two questions:
i) Is there any way to get these images back? I don't see how it could be done without some serious forensics, but I have to ask…
ii) Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Like I said, I'm not sure how it happened, I just assume there's some connection between said events and my files going missing. It seems reasonable to me.
Thanks,
Anders

Update
Thanks for your reply, Terence. I think I've figured out what happened. In addition to my iPhoto library, I used to have a folder hierarchy of old photographs as referenced files in Aperture. All of those images are gone from their original folders, but they are still in my Aperture library.
What I think happened, is that I brought the files into my Aperture library with "Consolidate Masters…", thinking that would copy the originals into Aperture, not remove them from their original path. Later, when I discovered that my iPhoto folder was out of date, I removed it (as there is no synchronization feature) so that I could reimport all of the images once and for all. Because the files had actually been removed from their original place inside the iPhoto library, this failed miserably. It seems that the 200 or so images I was able to import, were the ones that had been modified in iPhoto and were still intact inside the "Modified" folder.
I guess you could call this a PEBKAC moment, but I still think Apple's approach to dealing with this stuff is more confusing than it should be.
I downloaded FileSalvage and ran it in trial mode. It seems like a decent piece of software, and was able to find about 20,000 jpegs in five hours or so, with the default settings; but I thought the price was a bit steep, so I decided to give PhotoRec a try before paying up.
It ran for something like 18 hours, but when it finished, I had about 76,000 jpegs recovered. Of course, the vast majority of those are cached images of web pages, iPhone screenshots (for the animation effects, presumably), etc. The only downside of using PhotoRec is that it doesn't seem to recognize .cr2–files; I checked the .crw–box, hoping that would cover it, but apparently not. Almost all of the images I lost were jpegs anyway, though, so in my case it's no big deal. I highly recommend it.
Now I just have to reorganize about a thousand images hidden among 75,000 others, all with anonymous file names. Fortunately, the Finder search options (such as Pixel width & height, Created date, Device make, etc.) greatly simplify this task.
If anyone's using an *online backup service* they're happy with, I'd be interested to hear about it. I know a bunch of names (Carbonite, Mozy, JungleDisk, BackBlaze, iDrive…), but I haven't used any of them. I'm curious as to how much they would affect the performance of my computer and network bandwidth.
Thanks,
Anders

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    You can reveal it also  from the Finder's "Go" menu:
    Finder > Go,   then hold down the options ⌥ key, until the Library appears in the drop-down menu, select it and open the Library folder. Then go to the "Preferences".

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