Blank images, loss of albums and various other bits.

Hello all
I've read any comments on moving my library to an external hard drive and followed them through. Holding 'option' down as I start iPhoto up and choosing the new library I get the following message:
'iPhoto library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto.
Your Photo Library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process may take several minutes depending on the number of photos in the library.'
I click okay and the upgrade takes place in a few secondes. iPhoto then says it is loading photos with the grey spinning wheel (5 hours yesterday) and it doesn't go away and I have to force quit.
Now going back to my original library (where nothing has been moved or changed) all of my albums have disappeared and quite a few pictures are blank. When I try to get info or open in the editor the 'beachball' spins for a couple of minutes or so and then nothing appears and the info is all dashes to show that there isn't any.
I have about 1700 pix which is about 3.4gb. I realise that there are a few issues bundled into one question here, and the 'blank' pictures have been appearing intermittently for a few months now, but any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, and also my apologies if I don't respond to any of your answers quickly, I'm out for the next day or so, only back at my Mac now and then.
Thanks

Trevor,
That's a bummer.There is a preference file you can trash, but I don't think that will make a difference. It certainly wouldn't hurt to try.
Preference file
When you switched back to the library on the internal, did you use the Option key when you launched iPhoto?
You can also check the permissions on your iPhoto Library folder.
Get info on the iPhoto Library folder
iPhoto Library Info
You can run a cache cleaner like Onyx
OnyX
You can check out these two pages to see if there is anything more to help you.
iPhoto Help
iPhoto Help 2
If all else fails, you can create a new library:
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and choose it.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck!
Lori

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