Won't read the DVDs I just made.

OK! I know I did something stupid. I needed hard drive space so I burned about 60 gigs to DVDs and then deleted the files from my harddrive.
But now when I put a DVD in. The computer sees the DVD, Adobe Bridge in Photoshop sees all the files, but when I try to open an image it says that it is not a jpeg file that photoshop can open.
Any ideas?

I have used a version of this software to recover pictures from a corrupted memory card. This one is supposed to be for all forms and not just memory cards. They have a download preview that you can see what they can recover before you ever purchase. I wish every product was like that.
http://www.mediarecover.com/imagerecoverymac.html
I hope you can recover without purchasing anything but if not I hope this works.

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