All info & photos wiped

Everything has disappeared in my iPhoto 4
I have a good backup which tells me that iPhoto was "modified" a few days ago. before I realised this I asked it to export my photos to iPhoto, which it has been trying to do ever since to no avail, Dor days it just says 'loading photos' in iPhoto and I can not get it to stop. I think the backup is corrupted too?
I have made a disc of most of my photos, but they are not accepted as I am told that iphoto is in use ( The fake 'loading' I suspect?)
I think I may have deleted the iPhoto library file inadvertanly when I deleted a stray file which appeared in my Picture programme.? I opened what may have been the file in 'trash' and got a lot of technical gobbledegook
What can I do? easily explain please as I am a 'silver Surfer"!!
Thank you- Jackie (HELP!!)

Dear Brie- Your advice worked well and all has been well until now- The trouble has been that the iphoto library kept copying i itself in finder pictures. (This was not helped by my brother sending me some photos zipped into a folder marked 'library; which also keeps copying itself in finder)
When I tried to sort this out I lost the pctures again, A bit differently this time as the names and shapes of the photos remain but they are 'greyed out'-
I went through the advice you gave me before and all started well but then it aborted and now I cannot get the 'quit' dropdown at all
I have retrieved some of my photos from finder ( which have appeared in iphoto copied over and over) but the rest of iphoto is still 'greyed out'
is it savable? (The iphoto icon copies itself in finder applications too)
Jackie

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