Movies lost. Thumbnail there but no movie, Arrrrh!!!

Movies of my kids, ie precious - as precious as and interlocked with my relationship with the wife and her in laws (less precious).
I have iphoto '09, snow leopard, and all movies imported from my digital camera before 30 Apr '08 have gone from iphoto. The thumbnail is there, and in information it will have 88mg or whatever, all in MPEG1 format, and none play when I double click them. They do after this date, with the same file format.
So... I installed Perian, no banana, right click the thumbnail to 'show file' and nothing is there. They are not in the originals folder that I can see. I can go back a way in time machine but can't access the files to see if the movies are there. Going back in time in iphoto doesn't work 'cos you can't play anything anyhow. How come there is the info with the thumbnail in iphoto but there appears to be no movie. How can I see if it is time machine, if so how do I recover it? Peeease help!
If these are lost, the rhetorical question deserving only mirth is how do I recover the relationship (just the wife would do!)

Hello Jaime,
I expect you are getting this dialogue:
As long as you've copied your library to an alternate location I would say its ok to choose "Restore". If you don't like the results you can always restore your backup copy.
If this does not resolve the issue try searching your computer for movies. Do this by going to Finder and choosing File > Find. In the top of the window you will see "Kind" and "Any". Change the "Any" to movies to locate all movies on your computer. If you find the movies you are looking for click on one of them and notice the location at the very bottom of the screen. If it doesn't say iPhoto Library in the location then perhaps someone has been moving files. You could drag all these files to a central location (like a newly created folder on the desktop) and then add them back to iPhoto. The process of locating files is described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1995
Do not move images / movies that are located in the iPhoto Library. Doing so will damage the references to these files in iPhoto.
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