Iphoto help unavailable

Hi, Today I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard and iLife '09 to iLife '11. When I started iPhoto, it upgraded the photo collection. I'm trying to use the help tutorials to see what's new,  but ALL help topics display as
The selected topic is currently unavailable.
To see all iPhoto Help, you must be connected to the Internet.
I am, of course, connected to the internet - else I couldn't be posting this!
Software Update says I'm completely up to date (ran several updates today).
Thanks for any suggestions,
Ed in Cannon Falls MN USA

Hello KIRS10MG,
The same thing happened to me, but it was 7 DAYS after I "updated" (read "downgraded") my iphoto 11 to ver.9.2.1
I found what appears to be my photos by going to iphoto and clicking on "file" then clicking on "import to library", then going to the bottom part of the left-hand column where it says "media", and clicking on "photos", then, on the top menu bar just to the right of the word "photos" will be  a blue or graphite "up-down" arrows box. Click on that, and you should get some choices that you may not recognize, but explore them with the "thumbnails" format selected (that's the one that looks like 4 little squares, it's just to the left of the aforementioned "photos with the up-down arrows" selection). Exploring this in the thumbnails view should allow you to see your photos that "disappeared" Then you should be able to manually import them back into iphoto.
WHY ALL THIS GOBBLDEYGOOK IS NECESSARY IS SOMETHING ONLY THE apple SOFTWARE UPDATERS KNOW!!!!!
Personally, I have yet to restore my photos to where they were originally, that is, on iphoto, but I'm about to do that now, and I'll certainly report on this thread what my experiences were.
Thanks for "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING" apple!!

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