IPhoto image loss after editing in Library

Apologies for posting question here. There was no post message button in the iPhoto discussion page. I've edited about 2 dozen images in the iPhoto Photolibrary itself. Now I know not to do that, but in the meantime I'm trying to recover lost images apparently damaged in the editing. I may have reached a memory threshold, but there was no warning. The editor indicated after each change and shift to another image that the previous changes were being saved. Not so. The thumbs for these images in the browse bar first indicated the changes I had made, but then changed back to their original orientations after a second or so. The images themselves couldn't be opened to edit. Couldn't revert to originals either. Indeed, the originals seem to have been lost in the process. Backed up the files to DVD disk and rebuilt the library (iPhoto 5.03 or .04, I think) by reopening with Command+Option held down. Now the problem thumbs have also disappeared. Is there any way to recover these images? Thanks.

This is the iPhoto Forum Link
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=143
As you say there is no new topic link, however you then need to click the relevant sub-forum, eg
Editing & Organizing in iPhoto 6
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1117
There is a Post New Topic link at the top of the forum.

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An answer to this thread dated April 30, 2009 of the same subject by David_Powers, community Professional, did the trick. I wound up renaming the DW Configuration folder in C:\Users\dmckeen\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS5\en_US\Configuration (where dmckeen is my username) and letting DW rebuild it.
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