IPhoto '09 - Some Photos Missing?

I recently used time machine to back-up the contents of my iMac. Everything seemed to go well enough, no problems.
I was using the computer for the first time since the back-up, and went into iPhoto only to realize that some of my photos are missing. Two events are completely gone from iPhoto, and I have no idea what happened.
Any ideas? I tried launching iPhoto while holding option & command in an attempt to rebuild the library, but that doesn't seem to have done anything.
Also, I tried opening the old library from time machine (by holding option and launching iPhoto) but the missing events aren't in the back-up, either.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Exactly same story here - did you manage to solve the problem?
Luckily I restored backup to the new disk, so still could recover pictures from the old one, but makes me wonder - if my disk breaks for any reason, it's very hard for me to trust Time Machine now...
When browsing through the TM backup file, it appears that original pictures are simply not there (and no library rebuild is going to change that i'm afraid...)

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I have been looking through the forum to find an answer to this, but I haven't seen anyone else with this exact problem.
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I had to erase my drive and do a clean install. That went well, and I used Time Machine, and Migration assistant to bring all of my users, docs and media back in.
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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