Photo won't open - but can see thumbnail

Hello all,
First off the bat, this is my mother's computer and I have no idea what to do with a mac, I've always used a PC. I've asked her about it & she's looked into it with me but we can find no answer. Mom had updated iPhoto to 5.0.4, and wanted to buy me a photo album as a gift. I could design it, blah blah blah, long story shorter - While saving an edit, iPhoto froze & I had to close it. When I opened it again, I have the tumbnail of the picture I was editing, but the picture itself won't open, and in the album it's got one of those beautiful exclamation points over it. In the information box, other pics have a size of 2201x1709, but this one is 0x0. I really liked this picture. What in the world is going on?
Oh, and after all this happened, Mom told me that I should have duplicated all the pictures. I still don't understand that. HELP!!
iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I can't tell you that for sure. I am guessing that the edited photo was not saved, but the original was still there in the iPhoto Library (not visible to you though)
You can navigate to the proper folder in the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder to check and see if it is there. Do not touch or move anything though, just look and see if it is there.
The following link will show how the Library is organized in the Finder. If you know the year and day the photo was taken it should be easy to find.
This is a view of how the iPhoto Library looks in the Finder.
It is organized by Year folders. Inside the Year folders are Month folders. Inside the Month folders are the days of the Month. Inside the day folders are the photos you took on that day. If you imported video clips and RAW files on that day they will be in an Originals folder. If you have edited any photo imported on that day, the original will be in that folder also.

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