Can't Access Photos on External Drive

I attach my external drive (Toshiba 320GIG) and open, which gives me the external drive window. I click on Toshiba on the left-hand-side menu, then begin to enter IMG in the search window. As soon as I type the first letter, the menu highlight defaults to my hard drive menu item and I can't search in my external drive. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for reading. Any help appreciated.
Russ

So, you have two versions of iphoto? One from the old machine and one from the new?
If so, forget about opening with the older version of iPhoto.
For the newer version:
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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