I am still hopeful that the old images (8000 of them) can be retrieved from forumatic , as these will show up together with the new replacements (those that you are uploading now) we are going to have a whole load of duplicates to delete .
The admin on Forumatic has taken up the case again today after a little encouragement on his face book page and some other forums he is involved in
It might be be better to hold off on replacing photos for a few days give Formatic a chance to come good on the old material.