IPhoto will not load with old library

Help! When I try to open iPhoto, the white box appears (with no albums or icons), the wheel never stops spinning, and I have to force quit. When I created a new library, it worked perfectly fine, so i think it's the old library thats messed up. I have no idea what to do!

Thank you for responding!!
I'm using iPhoto 8.1.2 and the old library has all pictures on it but won't open. The problem is backing up the library. The library is too large to burn on a CD. I opened Time Machine, but there appear to be no back up drives there. It's not my computer, so I really don't know and I'm scared to lose everything. I did duplicate the library (made a duplicate file). Is this enough to go ahead and rebuild?

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Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         ??? (???)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-4750000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
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Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          91733 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           9
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   9
Anonymous UUID:                      3B8356D3-F2A7-4D47-8AA0-E7754B24F8F4
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Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
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