IPhoto deleted my photo's. Apple backup is acting weird!!

Upgrading to iphoto has deleted some photos of mine, more like over 200.
Using apple's backup.app I made a backup of my home folder (where the pics are) prior to upgrade and I have a ilife backup from November.
However, backup is acting up! I double clicked the backup and it just opened the backup app. Ok, so I then highlighted ilife, all the options were greyed out.
I highlighted the home folder backup, and clicked restore and nothing happened. arrgh. any help? These are pics of my son's birth and I thought I was being smart by backing up.....
ps, I tried deleting all backup's plist etc....and reinstall. the same thing happens

Chet:
I'm not familiar with Apple's backup but since the V6 library folder is entirely different in structure than the V5 folder there's no way to use a backup to recreate the V6 library from a V5 version.
Did iPhoto really delete them or are they still in the folder but not linked? That's what usually happens. Since you were trying to join apples and oranges I suggest you bring down your backup iPhoto Library folder intact (you may have to move your current folder out of the Pictures folder to somewhere else on the desktop) and let the backup application recreate your V5 library folder in the Pictures folder. Then give V6 another go at converting it.

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