Originals won't open in iPhoto, Preview, Photoshop; Corrupted files?

I am using the latest version of iPhoto 6 (6.0.5, I think).
I have 2 external Firewire hard drives. One is for backup. One is for my music and pictures.
Everytime I would start iPhoto I would get "rebuild thumbnail cache". Knowing this is not normal, I used the latest version of Backup, and backed up to an external hard drive.
Now the external hard drive with the music and photos has failed completely (I think the circuit board is fried, but that's another story).
I restored my iPhoto library from my backup, to my computer's main drive. I checked permissions, and none required fixing.
Now all of my pictures are corrupted. The thumbnails show, but neither the originals nor the modified picture files will open in iPhoto, Preview, or Photoshop. I get the infamous "unknown or invalid JPEG marker type" error.
And I have rebuilt the iPhoto database several times to no avail.
I have 13500 pictures in my library, including the birth of my daughter and 3 years of her growing up. There must be a way to fix this.
Please help!
20" iMac G5 2.0/MacBook 1.83/eMac 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Robert
Sorry to hear of your problems.
Right now I would concentrate on getting the pics back, and figure out the iPhoto part later.
Select one of the pics in the Finder and try change the file suffix: if it's pic.jpg, then try pic.JPG or .jpeg and see if that helps.
Try open the pics with Graphic Converter, which seems to be less fussy about things. You can download it here: http://www.lemkesoft.com/
BackUp (if this is the Apple App we're talking about) creates a pkg file. Can you see the one you restored from? Right click on it, and choose 'Show Package Files. Inside you'll find a .dmg file. This contains the actual files. Mount the dmg and see if you can find the files inside it. Can you view them in Preview?
Regards
TD

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