Photo and thumbnail missing

I have some old photos that are showing up black, (this happened to them a few versions ago). Is there a way to recover these photos, all the information seems to be ok, just no image.

I also just upgraded to iPhoto 9.1.2 and have OS X 10.6.7.
I found this thread because I am missing about a month's worth of photos. Specifically, the last major upload I did from my camera before I did the iPhoto upgrade. (Where it asked if it's ok to update the iPhoto database, making it incompatible with older versions of iPhoto.)
Anyways, I am missing the photos and thumbnails. If I go to iPhoto and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original, it tries to pull up Time Machine.
If I just use Finder to search on the missing photos by file name(I can display the photo meta tags, along with the event names such as my daughter's 5th birthday) then Finder will show the file, with correct date, but as soon as I click on it, it launches iPhoto, and it jumps to a different picture with the same file name (but taken on a
different date)
Now get this, this is really bizarre. Back toiPhoto. If I scroll slowly through the missing photos, I just see the empty box instead of thumbnails. But if I scroll quickly, it flashes the thumbnail of the correct photos, but as the scrolling stops, the thumbnails turn back to empty boxes. For example, I can see the images of my daughter's 5th birthday flash by as I scroll through photos quickly, but as soon as I stop scrolling, the thumbnails and photos are back to their missing status.
When I first upgraded to iPhoto 9.1.2, I noticed that certain cropped photos I had were missing. And the currently missing photos were displayed fine. (At least, the thumbnails were...) It was only after I kept on clicking around on the missing cropped photos, trying to display the meta tags and additional info, trying to open up the full size pictures and scroll through the photos, that I noticed that suddenly about a month's worth of photos were no longer visible.
I have not yet reverted my iPhoto via Time Machine, but I figured I'd ask around before doing so.
Thanks in advance for any help!

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