Photo cache problems

Ok, I've looked absolutely everywhere I can think to, and still coming up empty handed.. can someone please lend me a hand?
I just recently purchased my iPod nano 8g. I had sync'd all my photo's to it.. and everything was going great. Then I decided that since I only had 8% free space on my C drive, that I was going to spend some time transferring some of my files to my external E drive. Seeing as I am not a computer pro... this was an all-night task. Well, somehow during this, I managed to upset iTunes, and had to completely manually un-install it, and re-install it and QuickTime. I managed to get all my files back up and running except for one problem.
All of my pictures were missing. I have scoured all of my searching, and recovery software. I finally have come to the conclusion that the folder labeled "iPod Photo Cache" is actually my pictures (it contains a LOT of strangely numbered folders, etc). I know I'm missing something, but I'm new to iTunes, and iPod. Anyone have any ideas?

I've done that more times than I could count... including recovery programs (in case they were accidentally deleted). They seem to have just vanished. all I have is that folder with a lot of .qtr (.ithmb) files. I did have to manually delete a lot of files from both itunes, and quicktime. My best guess at this point is that I've deleted and recovered the missing link between my files, or my files themselves, and am still in the process of searching. Thank-you for answering me, and I will keep looking.
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