Can't open photos in event

I recently upgraded to mountain lion. Now all my events are visible, but if click on it they say "no photo". All the photos are merged together under "photos" and not in order. How can I get the photos visible back in the events? This coincided with downloading some of my friend's photos from photostream, so maybe that caused the problem?

What does happen?
We really need some details since we can not see your computer - we ONLY have what you tell us to go on
LN

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Thanks for your suggestions and sorry for the confusion; I misspoke in the sentence you quoted from my last post.
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