I'm having a weird issue with iPhoto.

My MacBook is running OS 10.6.8 with iPhoto version 9.2.3.
A few months ago the motherboard of my previous laptop, an iBook, died. I put the hard drive in an enclosure and used Firewire to link it to my present MacBook. Somewhere along the way the vast majority of my photos disappeared from iPhoto. I see dotted line squares against a grey background when I open the application. Clicking on those squares produces a black field. Once in a while, an actual photo opens. If I scroll quickly through the grey squares, I see photos, which quickly fade back to the dotted line squares. I can make out many photos that I thought I'd deleted long ago. It's like some kind of data link was broken.
Connecting to my backup hard drive has been no help and I've opened iPhoto while holding down Command/Option to rebuild it.
What the **** is going on?

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. 
Regards
TD 

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