Pictures are Missing after Leopard Install

I installed Leopard and received the same blue screen password issue that everybody is discussing here. I called Apple support and was told to do an archive and reload Leopard. Here lies the issue: When I went back in most everything was there under a "Previous Systems" file. However, my pictures were GONE!! All my family memories... gone. The only thing it brought over was my Photobooth pictures. My wife is devastated and mortified. Most of my pictures were backed up, but there were a few very important ones that are gone.
I know there has to be someway to retrieve them or get them back. They must be somewhere on my HD where I can find them. I am begging anyone to help me. I was able to get some off my iPod using a third party SW program, but the quality of the pictures is not very good.

If you intend to make a recovery on the drive, stop using it.
If the files were deleted, you overwrite them with each keystroke.
If they are simply misplaced, which may be the case, you will have to perform a detailed search for them, using the names of the files or at least part of the name.
Once you find one, they will probably be all together in the same folder.
It could simpy be the folder was misnamed.
If you cannot locate them with Finder or SpotLight, then you will have to use the terminal mode to search each and every nook and cranny on your HD.
The command would be something like
find / -name \*.jpg -print
where *.jpg would be the filename with a wildcard. If they were gifs then use *.gif
The \ tells the system to treat the * as a wildcard.
Be prepared for a long search with a lot of things showing up.
You can also use
find / -name \guess -print
where guess is any part of the file name you can recall.
Good searching.

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Select one of the blank squares in the iPhoto Window and right click on it. From the resulting menu select 'Show File' (or 'Show Original File' if it's availabe.) A Finder window will open. It should have the file selected. Does it?
I tried to drag some of the thumbnails into Photoshop as I normally would to work on them and I get a white circle with a slash through it and the photo does not open in Photoshop.
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http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
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You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
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