MobileMe migration event corrupted my library!

I guess I agreed to let iPhoto do an automatic dump of all my mobileMe Gallery images into my iPhoto Library. I let the process run and then after a few days decided to look inside when I started thinking about this... Aren't MobileMe Gallery images smaller, more compressed jpegs than the originals in your local iPhoto Library? WIll this MobileMe migration overwrite your larger originals? I never found out, because I right away noticed that over 1800 of my images in this massive MobileMe event folder were all named the same name. Even many of my videos that were on the MobileMe server were renamed as this same jpeg name. These were not duplicates either. When looking in all my existing albums or Events from the past, indeed all the same photos I saw in the MobileMe event all now had the same wrong file name. I immediately panicked and restored my entire iPhoto Library from June 29th before this auto migration event was created. Problem solved. I hope my corruption was unique! However I still wonder for the rest of you- what happens to your original full quality images if you run this MobileMe Migration? I fear that your originals will be replaced by smaller more compressed jpegs that were generated when you published your images to the MobileMe Gallery.
When I restored the iPhoto library all iOS devices see the library as brand new, so now I have to rebuild iphoto libraries on 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, and an iPod.
DOn't open iPhoto while this is happening! I made that mistake and the entire mac crashed and now my iPad seems to be corrupted as well as all data in the bar chart in iTunes shows up as "Other"
But that is another story!

2 things I want to add. One is I rebooted my iPad and now it is continuing in its merry way to completly load my newly restored iPhoto library. It is not corrupted as I had feared.
Second thing is iPhoto Library size. I noticed that my libray was 110 GB after this MobileMe Migration, and the one I restored from last week is 90GB. I though all my images were overwritten by mobile me and not dublicated, but this must not be the case as my library grew by 20 gigs. However I could not FIND the original images in my events or albums that had the correct file names.
I am glad I restored. This MobileMe migration was a useless and dangerous thing for me to do and I am not sure why I clicked on it. All your Gallery images are already in your iPhoto Library most likely anyway! Unless others posted pics if you have friends/family who do that sort of thing.

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