Songs accidentally deleted, sent to trashcan, restored and...

...they disappeared. They're no longer in the trash can, but they aren't back in iTunes.
Are they gone? Or is there still hope?
Thanks in advance.

This is what the alert says in Tiger:
Remove Account
Are you sure you want to remove the <AccountType> account "<AccountName>"?
This will permanently delete the account setup information, mailboxes, and messages from your computer. Messages stored on the mail server will not be affected.
As you can see, it only talks about messages not on the server. It doesn't make any distinction about received/sent messages.
You may consider using a data recovery tool to try to salvage your mail. If you want to try that, the less you play with your disk or use the computer, the better. Otherwise, chances are that you end up overwriting the deleted files. Note also that the current version of the most popular of those utilities, Data Rescue II, doesn't provide support for recovering deleted .emlx files, which is what Mail 2.0 uses to store your mail. Don't know what the capabilities of the other utilities are, but don't hold your breath either. If you upgraded from Panther recently, however, your chances could be better because Mail 1.x used a different format and you might be able to recover mail sent before the upgrade.
The only real solution to problems like this is to backup your data regularly... and you have to be careful with that too:
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