IPhoto Photos Corrupted... AGAIN

I have a roll of pictures that I imported before. Some of the pictures in the roll became corrupted, and iPhoto AND Preview could not open/load the pictures. However, in the pictures folder in Finder, there was one version of the corrupted pictures and another of the same picture that was still good and viewable (2 picture files for the same photo: one good one bad). iPhoto seemed to load the corrupted version of some of the pictures in the roll. Copying the "good" photos into another folder on the desktop and importing those into iPhoto did the trick of fixing the problem (would not import directly from pictures folder).
Now, however, the pictures are corrupted once again, and there isn't even a "good" one to import.
I have used PhotoPresenter: Version 3 DEMO, and I don't know if that is causing the problem. How can I fix this problem and is the cause of these corruptions PhotoPresenter?
Thank you!

Thankfully, my backup disk had the uncorrupted photos. I guess I'll start backing up more often (or use Time Machine).

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