Just installed, lost all photos, no backup

So I just installed iLife '09 and was so excited. I opened up iPhoto and got the message "The photo library needs to be updated to work with the version of iPhoto" so I clicked the 'update' button. It starts to read the old data library then says "Your photo library is damaged or unreadable and cannot be opened. Please restore from a back up." I don't have a backup. Is there anyway I can get my pictures back?

ADG
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download iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - and use its rebuild function - this creates a new library without disturbing our existing one so you lose nothing
LN
PS - Now you know why it is critical that anytime you do a software install or upgrade that you have a backup prior to doing the install/upgrade - Things do happen and a backup is your only defense to "things happening"

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