Lost pics on iphoto after referenced to aperture

i have bought the aperture application and i transferred my iphoto pics to aperture (using iphoto as referenced). i went into iphoto and looked at some of my pics yesterday and just to find out that 70% of my library are gone (represeenting about 4,000+ pics)! the thumbnails are there but the screen went to a blank (a box with dotted line border) with an exclamation mark in the middle when i double-clicked the pics to go to full screen mode.
i also went to aperture and looked at the iphoto library folder and these pics aren't there.
since the thumbnails are there, i suspect (at least i hope) the pics are still in my computer.
would somebody be willing to diagnose and give me some instructions on how to regain those pics?
if they are gone, i should still have an incomplete copy in my pb g4 i can transfer back. if i truly have to transfer, would anyone knows how i can transfer them without duplication of the thumbnails or wipe out everything i had before and transfer the folders over. gee, i really hope i don't have to do this.
powerbook G4 15", 1.5 GHz; intel based iMac 20" 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)
powerbook G4 15", 1.5 GHz; intel based iMac 20" 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)
powerbook G4 15", 1.5 GHz; intel based iMac 20" 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

no need for help... it seems like whenever i imported the pics from iphoto, they became corrupted. after a painful 12 hours long process, i finally get all my pics reloaded into the iphoto library.

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