Set of iPhone photos vanishing from iPhoto

I'm having a problem importing a particular set of photos from my iPhone to iPhoto. The import seems to go fine, I transfer and even edit the photos, put them in a sub folder. But a few minutes later, I discover they have disappeared. The "last import" folder and my subfolder are blank, and there is no trace of them on the "Event" screen. I have repeated this process five or six times and the same thing happens every time. However, the photos stayed long enough for me to upload one to Facebook and put copies in the "Pictures" folder on my Mac, all of which I still have. But why don't they stay in iPhoto? The rest of the library seems unaffected, and I have never had this problem before.

Judith
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import these pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Regards
TD

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