My photos have been found! Vista had saved them. I found them in the folder windows.old on my C: drive. They were not in the most intuitive place, but they were there.
For those of you that reinstall Vista without formatting the hard drive first note that Vista will save your Documents folder and your Pictures folder under the windows.old folder. It saves a lot of other stuff too, but these I think are the most valuable. If you try to recover some of the other files, I think you will do more harm than good.
Also, be aware that if you are low on disc space before you re-install Vista, you may run out of it because of this back up. I do not know how the re-install will react if you are low on space. I had a brand new huge disc space so I had no problem. I am planning on backing up the windows.old folder and removing it from my PC. That will streamline my full backup somewhat.
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