Need to find photos they are gone!

I was going thru some of my library today and I noticed that some pictures are gone...specifically from 2003, and from 2 events (a christmas and a birthday )
I have been using Backup to back them up onto a disk.
I also have used SuperDuper in the past.
When I look at the file on the disks, they are zip files...
when I try to unarchive them...I am not sure....are they going to replace my current library!!!!????
when I look at files from Superduper, I don't see jpgs. I see like data files.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. My dog of 13 years just died and I am trying to unearth all photos of him for a DVD project.
thanks again ,
Laura

Before we address the backup/restore issue, try this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947

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