Where the **** has all my photos gone??!!

Absolutely furious!! I had over 1200 photos on my iphone, I constantly backed it up. Then my iphone started to restart itself, so i restored it to original settings and backed it up from icloud, everything downloaded fine, except my photos. First of all only about half the photos downloaded back onto my iphone, so i decided to try again, and this time theres only 35 downloaded, even though the phone says downloading 900 of 1200, it only shows 35 photos in my camera roll but seems to show i have about 3.8gb of photos when i connect it to itunes.
Please help, i have been trying to solve this for ages now, i've recently come back off holiday and all my holiday photos were on my camera roll and now i cant get to them in order to save them on my pc

Locate one of the photos in the Events mode and see if you can view it full sized there? If you can't and get just a black screen or black screen with an exclamation mark try the following:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - Run Option #4, Rebuild Database, followed by Option #1 if needed.
OT

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mountain pipi
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Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
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Go into the iPhoto Library on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Roll Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
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