Can't few photos but can see thumbnails

I bought a MacBook air and used iPhoto for the first time. I had to upgrade my Library. Once I did that, I have a weird problem with my photos. When I click on Events, I just get black boxes with the names of my photos but no pictures. If I click on Photos, I get the dates photos were taken and dotted-line boxes where photos should be but no photos. But if I quickly scrolled up and down, the photos do appear briefly, but disappear again when I stop scrolling. Also, if I click on one of the empty boxes in Events or one of the dotted-line boxes in Photos, a thumbnail bar appears at the bottom of the screen and the photos are all there, but I can't display them in the normal way - I can only see them in the thumbnail bar. Does anyone know what I can do to make this work? If you know how I can fix this, please give me a click-by-click instruction because I don't know anything about iPhoto

Option 1
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If that fails:
Option 2
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Regards
TD

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