Missing Files Images Grey Box with ?

I have a large document that I am putting in many screenshots. I use the standard format (picture1, picture2, etc), then drag and drop them to my document. This has worked fine overall but yesterday I opened my file and received the error message that files were missing, specificlaly images. If I accept this and look at my document, there are grey boxes with a question mark in the center. What happened? The grey box shows the proper file name, just no image. Show contents shows that I have no files in there, I am at a loss (to fix this and my graphics).
BTW, I did start this from scratch (no templates).

Ok, I too got scared with this problem today! But apparently managed to fix it!
I was designing a photo book in Pages (to later order through iPhoto). I had about 90 high-res photos placed on 80 pages (with some pages having just text). Experimenting with the "PDF pages to JPEG" Automator scripts, my Pages document suddenly displayed grey boxes with a [?] symbol where about half of the images were. I still had about 40 images OK, but the other ones wouldn't display at all.
Opening the contents of the Pages document from the Finder, I was able to confirm that all my photos where inside the document and that they were not corrupted in any way.
I uncompressed the "index.xml.gz" file inside the Pages document and after a little examination, I spotted an odd property on an image entry: sf:corrupt="true"!!! What the ****.... That property was assigned to 43 images, the same ones that no longer appeared in my document.
To be able to edit the index.xml file more easily, I modified Pages' preferences file so that it would not "gz" the index.xml file. See: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/iWork2-0XML/Chapter02/chapter_2_section5.html
I then re-launched Pages, opened my document with the images still broken, just saved it right away, closed the document from Pages and opened its contents from the Finder. The index.xml file no longer being compressed in gz format, the file was now easily editable. I opened it with BBEdit and removed all instances of sf:corrupt="true". Saved the file, closed everything and reopened my document in Pages. Bingo! All images are back!
Where does that "corrupt" property come from?

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a) Copy the "index.xml.gz" file to your desktop, so you are not working with the original file.
b) Start from "Applications/Utilities" the program "Terminal".
c) In the terminal window, type: gunzip (with a space after it).
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e) Hit the return key.
Now you have a "index.xml" file, which you can open with a text editor.
To compress the file, do the following:
a) In the terminal window. type: gzip (with a space after it).
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b) Now copy the "index.xml.gz" file from the desktop (the one you have edited) to the template package folder and overwrite the original.
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