Lost photos on iPod during sync?

I have an iPod Gen6 (based on the photos & process of elimination) 8Gig, Version 1.2PC.  It was my replacement when the first gens were recalled/replaced.
When I went from a PC to an iMac about a year ago, somewhere along the line, a large number of older photos that were in my EasyShare on the PC ended up on my iPod.  I really am not sure how.  I have been trying to get them OFF the iPod and into iPhoto.  I researched and attempted to sync using the instructions I found for utilizing "enable disk usage" on the summary screen in iTunes for the iPod.
Use Disk Mode to copy photos from iPod - Apple Support
When I attempted to IMPORT nothing happened. When I tried EXPORT, it wanted to take the photos out of iPhoto and put them on the iPod, which was the opposite of what I wanted.  I performed a sync, choosing the option to sync to iPhoto. 
What I got when I synced, was all the photos I had in iPhoto being exported to the iPod and all the photos that were on the iPod wiped away.
My husband is convinced that the photos that were on my iPod are SOMEWHERE in my iMac b/c they had to come from somewhere to be on my iPod. I'm not terribly Mac savvy but I am very careful to not "delete" or "move to trash" unless I'm sure of what I'm moving/deleting.  I found instructions regarding restoring an iPhone to a previous date, but the restore option for the iPod doesn't allow for a date, only factory settings.
The really weird part is, I would swear those same photos were IN iPhoto at one point but somewhere along the line they disappeared too! 
Is there some way to find those photos or to restore the iPod back to a different date?  Yesterday would be OK. 
I hope this question makes sense, I admit I'm pretty upset and frustrated.

Your new computer probably wiped out the photos while attempting to sync with the Nano since it did not see any of the photos on the Nano that are now on your computer. They were probably synced to your Nano in the first place during a normal sync to add music, etc., but it didn't add the full photo it added a thumbnail that can fit the tiny screen of the Nano. Even if you had been able to get them from the Nano they would have been the size of the Nano screen in iPhoto.
Can you not recover the originals from your PC?

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