Lost all my photos after back up & reinstall-PLS HELP

Hello There,
i have a very serious problem, the problem is as below:
- my system was having a problem so I was asked by apple store guy in Zürich to reinstall my OS
- everything in iphoto was fine before that
- after reinstall, the following problems started:
a) photos thumbnails didnt enlarge & only a black circle with "!" mark came up. Videos dont play at all.
b) the photos stopped syncing to my iphone or ipad
c) even after rebuilding the iphoto library database (as adviced by genius bar guy), the problem didnt go away.
d) this problem also happened with the new photos imported into iphotos from my camera/sd card or iphone
e) the guys at the genius bar had no idea about this problem.
Now genius bar found out that my hard disk had a problem so they asked me to back up & reinstall my OS (snow leopard) for the 3rd time so they could change my hard disk
I did this, got my hard disk replaced & now I am restoring my system from time machine. I have the following problems.
- all the photos imported after this problem started didnt seem to have been backed up by time machine so they are simply missing.
- my old hard disk has been destroyed by genius bar so I have no back up any sort of my photos.
i have been going to the apple store about 5-6 time over 6 months now & they offer no solution except telling me too bad for me that I lost my family & children photos. All was fine until genius bar guy told me to back up & reinstall my system. I had requested him to help me out the very first time during the back up & reinstall but they have always told me they have only 20 mins for every client so I have to do it myself.
I am very sad at the moment. I have lost all my photos including work & my children since they were born. its very serious for me & i am totally depressed at the moment.
is there a way to recover the photos & videos?? I have read a lot of your forums & even tried iphoto library manager.
this is a desperate cry for help!!! this is my first mac & i now start to regret the day i bought it.

I just updated 3gs with ios5, using a pc. Photos and videos are not showing up in camera roll, In tunes the capacity bar of colors showed nothing in video or photo, but lots of memory in yello part of bar named other. I suspected that this was all my photos and videos.
Downloaded this windows browser, worked for me.
http://iphonefolders.com/
It opens iphone like windows explorer.
The pics and videos were located in DCIM folder.
Got back pics and videos.
Hope this works for anyone else.

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