Photos vanished, gone, disappeared

It's odd, I opened my iPhoto and where I had over 2GB of photos I now have just the four I imported today and they day before yesterday. (thinking about it I should've noticed on Monday they were missing but I've a cold and wasn't thinking right)
I've not noticed a sudden gain of 2GB of space either which is strange.
Looking inside it all the year folders are empty, the thumbs are empty the originals are empty. Getting info on the iPhoto library folder it now shows it's size to be 152mb rather than 2.5GB.
All the photos are just not there. I do still have names of Albums I created when looking in iPhoto and the iPhoto library folder, of course all are just as empty.
I've not tried any rebuilding holding down option keys etc as I imagine it would need something to rebuild from?
I've searched for all the img files (standard name of images from my camera) and only find those that were never in iPhoto. (I know spotlight can be hmm spotty and not find things of course)
I can't find any other iPhoto.db files either (there is one other under another user on the PowerBook)
I do own an iPod, first generation (incase that's important, though obviously that can't handle photos)
I don't remember doing anything out of the ordinary either to cause them to just vanish.
I'm not freaking out too much as I have a full backup (phew). Though I am concerned if the files are actually still just sitting there taking up 2GB of space.
Any ideas?

I did a search of the discussions before posting, your name popped up a few times Lori so I thought I'd take a few of your tips.
I've not changed my name, I just wonder where they all went? I just did a search looking for invisible files (well, you never know) and nope.
Almost the first think I did was check the backup (that's how I new what size it should be) and they are all there. I've learnt the hardway to do backups.
It's more that feeling that 2GB of space may be being used. I suppose I could always do a wipe and install again if I'm feeling too paranoid.
Thanks for the quick reply too.

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