Cannot photos that are in some albums in the library

Hi-
A while ago, I discovered that some of my old photos are still visible from the "Albums" but I cannot find them in the library surprisingly.
This is an issue as I have now switched to iPhoto'08 and would like to manage my photos in using the event function vs. creating albums for each events.
This is not caused by Leopard of iPhoto 08 as this problem surfaced before I up-graded the softwares.
Can someone help?
Thanks
Blero

My question is different (sorry if this wasn't clear). Why can I see a picture in the album but not on the general library folder in iPhoto (Source window)?
The answer to this is you can't, unless something has gone wrong.
All your pics are in the Library, the Albums are a subset of that. If a pic you've deleted from the Librayr is still visible in an album, then try Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
Regards
TD

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