IPhoto '11 All Photos Lost

Hello,
First lets start off by me telling you there is no back up ;( and I learned my lesson.
It all started( a month ago) when I opened up the explorer and went to "All Images" and saw thousands of photos in there. Being new to Apple after switching from Windows based for years I thought these were duplicate images stored on the computer(******** me). So I selected roughly 10,000 images and sent them all to the Trash. After realizing this was a huge mistake I tried to mass select all of them and select "put back" but some of the images could not be put back, for whatever reason I do not know. So I had to select each photo individually and select put back. There were many duplicate images from the "faces", "places", and other categorized options in iPhoto.
After getting all of the 10,000 photos that I put in the trash, "put back", I went through iPhoto and started checking my images. Many of them were there, but many of the thumbnails would show the picture but when I double clicked it a screen with a triangle with an exclamation point in it would display.
So I tried to google it to find out what the problem was and many forums with previously asked questions from other people would be answered by depressing the option key + command key while opening iPhoto and repairing/rebuilding the library. So, I did this.
Then iPhoto stuck on the same screen for a very long time, I let it sit there for about 16 hours before I had to close it for class. Then when I reopened iPhoto, every thing was gone. It looked like the very first day I got my MacbookPro and and iPhoto hadn't been used yet.
I went to the explorer, clicked on my user profile, went to pictures, and opened up iPhoto but no pictures were there either.
How can I get my photo library back? Thanks for any help in advance.
It is iPhoto '11 version 9.1.5(615).

Can you tell if the photos are still on your hard drive?  Open your iPhoto Library with the finder:
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and look inside the Originals folder and its subfolders to see if your original files are there.  If so I think your best bet would be to do the following:
Start over from scratch with new library
Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
1.  Move the existing library folder to the Desktop.
2. Open the library package with the Finder like this.
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3. Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
4. Drag the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the open iPhoto Library package on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
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This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects.
OT

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