Lost photo recovery on MacBook using iPhoto

Hi...My wife just returned from a family reunion. She synced her phone to iPhoto. When prompted, she selected "Delete originals on device". AT THIS TIME...the iPhoto software crashed and quit. When iPhoto was relaunched, the photos are NOT visible in iPhoto. ON THE PHONE...All photos are erased.
Thanks in advance for the help. She's very upset and would appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Thanks agian!
iPhone 4, Software Version 4.2.10

AHA! They appeared in the iPhoto "Last Month" folder under "RECENT". I can't drag these photos into the main "Photos" section. I created an album of the photos but I'm concerned that this is a temp file and the photos could go away.
What is the "Last Month" folder? Will it empty itself if I don't save these, or move, these photos somewhere else?
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Then it's a bogus message and indicates that the default library is damaged.
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Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
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such as why all of my photos are dated under "events"
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However you want, is the simple answer. Iphoto is very flexible. Here's a canned answer I offer to folk who ask that question. It may spark some ideas for you.
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums exensively. I title the pics broadly.
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Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 25k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
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In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.
Another thing is why do all the pictures I take on photobooth make it's own ablum in iphoto with one picture in each ablum?
Because you're importing one at a time. Every import makes at least one Event. But you can merge them, as I say above. Just drag one Event to the other.
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