Lost iPhoto pictures during transfer.

Here is the deal, my friends macbook pro needed to be upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6. I wanted to do A full upgrade because he was having some issues. I created a new partition on the main drive and installed snow leopard (with the leopard partition untouched) I then used the migration assistant to transfer everything to the snow leopard install. It transferred everything EXCEPT his iphoto library. But it deleted it on the old leopard install as well! (as if it transferred it). He said they were on his ipod, and I got some software to take them off his ipod without itunes since itunes HAS to sync. And as soon as i plugged it in, itunes started syncing the ipod, so i told it to stop, but it was too late and now all the photos are gone off his ipod.
Is there any software that can recover photos deleted off the ipod or even the old leopard partition?
So much for Apple being easy and "just working". Never gonna use the migration assistant again. Il just manually back up files or use carbon copy cloner.
I am going to feel SO bad if the pics are gone.

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