After migration from HDD to SSD, thumbnails in iPhoto are missing

Dear Apple-community,
I migrated my system a week ago. I added a SSD to the HDD which is now in an optibay. After adding the SSD I installed Lion from new on the SSD, migrated all programms etc. from the HDD and left only the user-folders on the HDD.
After repairing the rights and linking the user-folders to the system again, I was able to use everything, beside iPhoto.
in iPhoto the thumbnails don't show up. The categories are there, the pictures also, just I don't see them, just black or grey fields. I tried all the options offered by the menu, that appears when you start with cmd-shift. Now I need new solutions, that could help me get back my thumbnails!
Thanks a lot for your help!

I think I would have find the files on the internal HDD after the migration (eventhough they should be visible in Finder after the migration, don't they?) if there were there, even hidden.
I thought they dissappeared, because I made one mistake in following the instructions for the migration of the system to the added internal SSD (keeping user files on the internal HDD): I had to migrate everything but the content of the user folders from time machine to the SSD, but I migrated from my user folder on the internal HDD to the SSD. I had to migrate only the users, not the content of the user-folder. In the end, all this content was deleted from the HDD I migrated the users from.
Anyway, now all this old files on the internal HDD are deleted, because I restored my user-folder from time machine (external HDD) (because there was no folder visible anymore), so I could start the system again with my used options stored in the user-folder. Afterwards time machine started and deleted the old copys on the external harddrive.
Weird.

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