IPhoto 6 can't find my library for some strange reason...

Hello everyone,
I can't explain why or how it happened. One moment I was looking at my screen with the background that's been there forever. I plug in my external hard drive and the background on my screen turns in a simple mac blue design of some sort. My dock is reset to "not hide'.
I then open my iphoto (6) app. and my library is gone. Long time ago I moved my library to an external hard drive and it has always found it. Now it can't. I did a search on the net and saw that you can "chose" your library from the file list in iphoto, but I guess my version only has an "import library" option which is not what I am looking for. I am assuming that, 1) when importing, those photos imported are duplicated and saved on my internal hard drive and 2) will not place my pictures in albums (Yes, I did import and then deleted it because of that reason). I have 7,000 plus pictures and really don't want to re-create albums again.
I hope there is a "hey stupid, do this simple thing" answer to my question.

To select a Library:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
Regards
TD

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