SNewly imported photos show up as !, not in Originals Folder

I just imported about 100 pictures from a recent trip, and they are all showing up as ! in my iphoto library. I can see them in the thumbnails, but as the mouse rolls over them, or if I click on them, they go blank. I tried looking for them in the Originals Folder, but they aren't there (I looked by file name after seeing their info, and they do in fact have file names.)
I tried to rebuild my photo library, I tried extracting the photos - I think I've tried just about everything that has been suggested in various forums. The one difference I see between what others have found and what has happened to me is that while the pictures exist in my iphoto library, they don't seem to have corresponding 'originals,' which is rather odd. I don't know where they can possibly exist in my computer or how they are in iphoto if they don't exist in the Originals Folder. In fact, I looked in the Import folder within iphoto and the folder I named for the import is in there but it is empty.
Unfortunately, the photos were deleted off of my camera after export, otherwise I would just export again.
Any suggestions would be most helpful.

This isn't Apple Support. This is a forum for Users to help other Users, if they can.
Your problem is simple. iPhoto can't find the files you imported because they aren't there.
Are you running a Managed or a Referenced Library?
A +Managed library+, is the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing
A +Referenced Library+ is when iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing because you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced. In this scenario you are responsible for the File Management.
Regards
TD

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