Someone out there has got to know a solution...

Hi all. Ok, I'm not an idiot, but I seem to have done something stupid and I'm hoping there's a fix. I'll try to keep this brief.
My main user on my G5 kept having weird preferences problems. I decided I would create a new admin user and transfer all of my essential data (pictures for iPhoto and music for iTunes) to the shared folder and then to the new user. The plan was to then delete the old user and have only my brand new one. Here's what happened:
I dragged the folder containing all 4,700 of my photos to the shared folder (I held down the command key to move the folder instead of copying it). A dialogue box popped up showing the move in process and also giving me a cancel button. After about 2 seconds it occurred to me that I probably should have 'copied' the folder instead of 'moving' it just in case. So I hit cancel. The problem is that the folder had already disappeared from the original location, and only 200 of my pictures had been transferred to the new location! SO THE OTHER 4,500 photos are GONE!! Where did they go!?
Please help! I really hope I didn't just lose ALL those irreplaceable pics.
One other thing: I kept a close eye on my activity monitor, watching the space used on my hard drive. It hasn't changed. I would think that if the files were gone completely the disk space used would have gone down by 4GB. Any ideas? PLEASE!?
Thanks.

Download WhatSize, and use it to find out where the space on your hard disk is being used up. Look for a folder which contains the 4GB of photos you tried to move.
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