My most recently taken photos disappeared

I recently took about 5 photos on my iphone 4S (with the newest IOS 5.1 update which I did about a week ago) via the quick photo button. Those photos have disappeared from my camera roll.
When I connected my iphone to my computer, the photos were not there to download either.
The most recent photo that I took, is in the preview button when I click on my camera from either the button or the quick button screen. However when I click on that photo on the left, it instead shows photos I took a week or so ago, not the 5 photos I took tonight.
I've tried rebooting the phone, and deleting some of my pictures and video to my camera to no avail. I have also just turned on photo stream, and nothing is in it. I did text one of the photos prior to them disappearing, so I still have it in the message that I sent. However, I do not understand where those others went. I tried to text the photos again, and I cannot get to them from that angle either.
None of the photos I've taken before tonight have disappeared. Just the ones I took tonight, and I took them via the quick camera button on the home screen. Where did they go?

I have the same problem here. Before I did importing (from iPhone to computer), everything was fine - all photos/videos were right there on my iPhone. I simply used "cut" - "paste" from Windows File Explorer, and then I found that all the photos and videos after certain date were all gone. They are not in the iPhone, neither in my computer. Luckily all the recent photos are automatically kept in "Photo Stream", so I managed to save them all to the "Camera Roll" and then I could still import them to the computer. However "Photo Stream" does not save the videos, so now looks like I lost those precious videos forever!! There is another weird thing: after importing, some video files still remained on my iPhone which are unplayable, and the notification said "the requested URL was not found on this server". To ensure I don't lose anything, I still moved them to the computer. And the result is predictable: those video files cannot be played on the computer either, by any kind of players.
I think I am not the only one here. I see another post iPhone 5 some photos and videos disappeared from a particular photo onwards and three videos left are not able to be played and are saved as 0:00 files but I cannot reply. Can anybody offer help?

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