Lightroom deletes photos

I just had something very strange happen that disturbs me greatly. I was looking for a particular photo and found it with a search. It was stacked along with similar photos. I no longer do that -- just stack versions of the same photo. So I selected the photos and did Photos / Stacking / Unstack.
The photo I wanted disappeared! I can't find it anywhere, nor several others that were in that stack. Before I noticed that I had also unstacked another stack.
I went to my backup drive and that folder on the backup contains 53 objects and the active one contains only 49. I used Bridge to look at the files on the backup and the missing pictures are there.
It is possible this was imported from Elements 5 and was stacked in Elements 5, but that should make no difference.
Windows XP, Lightroom version 1.2.
This is the first time Lightroom has really frightened me as a catalog program!

Well, the lack of responses may mean that other people have not had a similar problem. Which makes me feel good. As I was putting them back I noticed something and it's possible I deleted them by mistake.
I did delete one of them on purpose, which was one of the stack at the time I deleted it. It's possible that I had the stack selected. I must say I do get confused about what is selected (compared to other programs) and always keep the bar that shows how many are selected visible for that reason.
However, I don't think I did that because I saw the missing photos until I did the unstack and then they disappeared from view. I thought at first that the unstacked members didn't have the right tags, since I was viewing from a FIND, but even showing all in that folder didn't show them and then checking the directory showed them missing.

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