Accessing photos in iPhoto from Time Machine. Help Please!

I'm using the Time Machine Backup Hard drive from my iMac on my macbook pro to access my files whilst travelling. I'm having difficutly with accesing my iphotos. What do I do when I get this message: "The iPhoto Library is a Time Machine backup, and so cannot be used as the main library. Relaunch iPhoto with key held down to choose another library."
I have created two libraries but swapping between them still brings up this message.
Thanks for any assistance.

You can not open a Time Machine backup wusing iPhoto - you must launch TimeMachine, selet the library and restore it  --  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
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