Problem Saving Photo Attachments to iPhoto

This may be a Mail issue but it affects the iPhoto Library. My Mother accidentally wiped out her iPhoto Library simply by saving a photo attachment to her iPhoto Library file in the Pictures folder. Now, this seemed like a logical place to which to save a picture file. What it did was overlay the iPhoto Library with the picture attachment. SHE IS DEVASTATED! There is no way I can figure out how to get her photos back. If she accidentally deleted the library file I could get it back. Any ideas?
She has a Macbook Pro and has yet to upgrade to Leopard and therefore does not have the benefit of running Time Machine.
I don't think the software should have allowed this to happen.

TJuianne,
If you're very careful (in other words, look, *but don't touch*) you can navigate to your iPhoto library in Finder. If you control-click and "Show Package Contents", you may find that the pictures are still in the library, but iPhoto has lost track of them, probably through a damaged database.
nathan

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(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
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There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
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For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
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For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
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Merry Christmas
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Okay, a more suitable resolution might be to fix this issue?

SInce the answer is in the article you posted
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