Missing photo imports in iPhoto

Hi all, here's my problem...
I am missing a few days of photos that were previously uploaded to iPhoto, two months ago. I just opened iPhoto, and noticed they were gone. Here's what they are appearing as:
I did a little research, and I cannot find any of the image names anywhere on my computer. I have opened iPhoto to get into the "Rebuild Photo Library", but I have no idea which selection would pertain to my situation... I did try the orphan photos, with no sucess. 
I have also went back through my back-up hard drive/time machine, and curiously enough, the back-up days after these photos were uploaded are also blacked out...
Does anyone have a solution for this? I'd appreciate any insight you may have!
(I have iPhoto '09, version 8.1.2)

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, 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.  

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