In a rush to upgrade my wife to 10.4 I forgot to move her pictures of the
grand children it was a fresh install I take it there is no way to get them
back or is there a undelete program somewhere.

Upgrading your wife.........to an OS version ...in which salon would this be
done.?

To safeguard treasured info ,may I suggest you store it on a separate USB HD
which is only connected to your PC when storing addtional info .
In this way you keep all you want to keep when you accidentily make a
boo-boo.