After Panic Alert iPhoto Gone from Screensaver

I removed the electric charge from the pc and placed pc on a chair. Picked up pc by lower left hand side. Screensaver went horizontal w/waves moving left to right. Three alarms sounding like an air raid alert, going down in the North Atlantic aboard an aircraft, or a ship that had just been torpedoed - in other words absolutely over the top unnecessary to tell me something's wrong. I tried to shut down the computer the normal way - no response. Crashed computer. It rebooted just fine except in System Preferences screensaver the iPhoto option has disappeared. I have a screenshot of the incident here:
The image is blurry I know. I've increased its size to 200%.

Do I need to run Disk Utility in Safe Mode or is Regular Mode sufficient?
Normal mode should suffice.
To repair your iPhoto Library use the First Aid Tools.
To launch the "First Aid Tools" hold down the options-command keys ⌥⌘ while double clicking your iPhoto Library.
Keep the keys held down firmly until the First Aid panel appears.
Then select "Repair database" from the First Aid panel.
If that does not suffice, remove the preferences:
Open your user library in your Home folder and delete the following files:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPhoto.plist
Delete the complete folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto
Then restart the system and try again to launch iPhoto
Your user library is hidden by default. To open the hidden User Library:
Use the Finder's "Go" menu.
Click "Go", then hold down the options key, until you are seeing "Library" in the drop down menu appear and click it.
In the Finder window that will open navigate to the folders Preferences and Containers.

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