Pictures Lost, want to keep the thumbnails

I was trying to import pictures from my digital camera when my hard drive was almost full. I was warned that I am low on the disk space and the import stopped (/finished) in the middle. I disconnected camera, made some space on the hard drive, reconnected camera and tried importing again. Unfortunately, my hard drive got full again and I had to repeat everything. This happened for good 3-4 times before all of the files could be imported. (Yeah I know, doesnt sound very well planned). Anyway, everything looked fine and I could see thumbnails of all pictures confirming that they are there.
5 days pass and I try to open the pictures by double clicking the thumbnail and all I can see is a big question mark. This happened to 60% of consecutive pictures. I did everything I could since then, but now I am convinced that I have completely lost them.
Can someone explain whay might have gone wrong? I can see the pictures in the thumbnails, but once I increase the size of the thumbnails to certain size, a question mark appears in place of all missing pictures.
I want to rebuild my thumbnails database now since iPhoto is horribly slow. But I still was to at least preserve those thumbnails of the pictures from the most memorable time that I ever spent with my family. Can anyone help?

5 days pass and I try to open the pictures by double clicking the thumbnail and all I can see is a big question mark. This happened to 60% of consecutive pictures.
This often indicates a Permissions problem in the Library. Download BatchMod from
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).
A Larry says, OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on. Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially. Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do. Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.
Lastly, have you looked inside the iPhoto Library Folder for your pics? They should be in the Originals folder.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
When you’ve recovered the disk space we can go about getting your Library back on track.
Regards
TD

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