IPhoto 11 deleted my photos

This has happened to me MANY times.
I'll import photos to iPhoto (the copy to iPhoto library option is selected), play around with them, add faces and whatnot, and all is well. Until...
When I go to export the photos back to my hard drive (maybe because i've changed how they look), they have been WIPED from my hard drive--they're not in the original folder, they're not in the Trash. They are nowhere. It happens to random ones, not all of them. It doesn't happen every time. It can happen whether I'm exporting/importing many or just one at a time. What prompted me to ask about it this time was that it deleted over 20 of them from one album in one go.
How is this possible!? I'd like to be able to use iPhoto without having to hunt through my Time Machine every time it randomly deletes something!! And how can I get them back???

Simply, I've not come across this sort of issue before, where new imports are trashed from the Hard Disk like this.
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

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