Accidentally opened Iphoto8 library in Iphoto 7... now all is bad

Ive stored my photos on an external drive and used it with my iphoto8 on my laptop. I recently bought a Mac Mini and decided to use that as my main Iphoto program. After connecting the drive to the Mac Mini, i tried to import the photos into what I thought was the latest version of Iphoto... but as it turend out it wasnt.
After the import.. i lost all my descriptions and event tags. Basically I have a library of photos based on date. But the WORST problem is.. all the photos are now low resolution! There are no high resolution versions of my 20,000 photos anymore!
So I then installed iPhoto8 on the Mac Mini and reimported the libary but its the same result. I also held down command+option and rebuildt the entire library ( i checked all the options) and after a hour.. still only low resolution.
Can someone please help me out! I had a backup of the library but i mistakenly imported that one into Iphoto7 as well when i was trying to figure out the problem.
Thanks for any help!

1 - iPhoto '08 is iPhoto 7.x.x (current version is 7.1.4)
2 - Is your library still intact on the external drive?
3 - *you do not import libraries* - you use them - you tell iPhoto where it's library is by launching it while the option (alt) key is depressed and use the select library option
4 - try connecting your EHD to your laptop and launch iPhoto with the option key depressed and point to the iPhoto library on it - hopefully it is ok
5 - now shut everything down and do the same from your mac mini
If each of these systems can use the library on your external drive then you are in good shape and you can delete the library out of the pictures folder on each (as long as you are sure there are no photos there that you want - I'm assuming that all of your photos are in the library on your EHD
LN

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