IPhoto 9.4.3 not seeing Library

Bit of a panic this morning. Not only awoke to a Time Machine error saying my dedicated backup drive had suddenly become read-only and I needed to back up what I could and reformat the drive (thus losing months of backups), but as I was scowling at the error message iPhoto unexpectedly crashed after I plugged in my iPhone--and since refuses to see my 500gb library which goes all the way back to 2002 and is stored on an external 1TB hard drive.
All at once my seemingly foolproof system of having the iPhoto library on one external hard drive and a Time Machine backup of it on a separate external drive was for naught. Many thousands of pictures and movies were suddenly gone in a scenario too implausible for me to have imagined.
After almost barfing on my keyboard I trashed the prefs and restarted iPhoto. Then I restarted the machine about seventeen times. Then I tried pointing iPhoto to the library by holding down <Option> at startup, then I tried rebuilding the database. Then I tried iPhoto Library Manager which "scavenged" only about a third of the photos, and with no albums at all. Plus 153gb of 500gb isn't much consolation, especially at 8:30 in the morning.
Lastly I simply tried using Finder and copied over the big Masters folder and Previews and Thumbnails and everything else, but no matter what I try when I launch iPhoto it presents me with "To get started with iPhoto..."
The one relief I have in this is that I have spot-checked the Masters folder and all 500gb of the jpg's and mov's are intact, up to and including the ones I imported the night before. They're all sitting where they've always been on the external drive. Since I copied them a replica is sitting on my iMac's hard drive too, but iPhoto will not recognize either library at all.
Back to almost barfing on my keyboard, and having spent all Sunday not the way I wanted to spend it I finally turn to the experts. I need a little help here.
iPhoto 9.4.3
default library kept on external 1TB drive
using new 21.5" iMac on OS 10.8.5
Also using a Macally BTKey wireless keyboard which is about to be barfed on.

Starting over from scratch with new library
Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
1. Open the library package like this.
2. Launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
3. Drag the subfolders of the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the open iPhoto Library package into the open iPhoto window a few at a time.
This will create a new library with the same Events (but not necessarily the same Event names) as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects.
Note: your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.
OT

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