Lost pix in iPhoto

I tried burnng a CD of some pictures from my iPhoto. Went through instructions and pressed "burn", then lost my pictures and now cannot retrieve them. All I get is the spinning circle with the prompt: installing photos". This has been going on for several hours already without presenting the photos. Can anyone offer a suggestion or phone number where I can get help? TIA
Miles

Thanks Brie Fly...however only one photo came back doing this. I found some photos in various places after pulling my Album but I get prompts like: "there is no default application specified to open document" or "the alias...could not be opened because the original item could not be found."
Some items in the album are the actual pictures that I can drag to iPhoto but other have only the icon and when clicking on these I get the above prompts. And, I don't have a clue as to where all the other photos went! I might add that I tried to use the directions in iPhoto's help menus under "Creating a CD or DVD..." Unfortunately when trying this I clicked on "export" and this may be the source of my problem. So if anyone has an idea of what I can do, your reply will be graciously appreciated. Is there a phone number for Apple that I can get to have someone walk me through what I should do? Thanks.
Miles

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