Some of my thumbnails disappeared, but the photos are still in the iPhoto L

Can anyone help me to get my missing thumbnails back to the iPhoto window? Some of them disappeared for no apparent reason. The files themselves are still in the iPhoto Library folder (both original and modified folders), but they are not showing up in the iPhoto window as thumbnails. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks,

I'm afraid it didn't work. When I launched iPhoto while pressing Option + Command, I was given 4 options:
1. Rebuild the Photos' small thumbnails
2. Rebuild all the photos' thumbnails (this may take a while)
3. Rebuild the iPhoto Library database
4. Recover orphaned photos in the iPhoto Library folder
I've tried #s 1 and 2, and they didn't work. I'm not sure what options 3 and 4 mean, so I don't know if I should try them.
Can anyone help? Thank you very much,
HalifaxMac

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