Lost photo's importing from iPhone to iPhoto

HELP!
I imported about 40 photo's of a very precious event with my kids this morning, off my iPhone 4 into iPhoto 09 (version 8.1.2 (424)). I made the stupid mistake of saying "delete photo's off my phone" after the import (I thought I'd make it into an album and re-import).
Photo's showed they successfully imported, I ejected my iPhone from iTunes and disconnected. I went to the "last import" in iPhoto, but it was very odd. It showed up at the top "Untitled Event - 1 Photo", but then had showed 38 items. Each one showed a thumbnail of the same photo, but was sized, scaled and oriented as per the actual real photo. Several videos on the import showed they were videos. When I clicked on a video, even though the thumbnail was wrong, it showed the correct video.
Likewise if I clicked on any of the 38 photo's even though they all had the same (wrong) thumbnail, the correct photo came up.
I tried to switch to the event view, and iPhoto froze. I waited 15 minutes to see if it could "unfreeze" but all I had was the spinning beachball. I had to do a force quit.
I rebooted my whole mac, and opened iPhoto. Opens fine - but there is no indication of the 1 "event", or any of the photo's at all. On my iPhone, equally weird! The photo roll still shows that there are 38 photo's and videos on it - but they are all blacked out, and cannot be viewed.
Help - the photo's had to have been imported, as I was able to view them at one stage - how can I find them?
Cheers,
Rob

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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