Can't view photos in iphoto

I recently got an I phone 4s. So I updated to Lion on my macbook and the latest version of iphoto so I could use photostream. Initially iphoto worked fine. But now all of a sudden, when I open iphoto the events or individual photos simply show a black square with their titles but no photo. However, I can view my photos in finder when I try to upload a photo. Any thoughts as to how to fix this? Thanks

i Brian
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
1 - this is the iPhoto '08 forum - your question would be better placed in the iPhoto 5 forum - http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=850 - some things work differently and here people will assume that you have iPhoto '08 and the answers may not work on iPhoto 5
What should I do in order to get things back to normal and be able to view my photos in iphoto??
2 - You should NEVER modify the iPhoto library (or any other database structure for that matter) - you should ONLY use iPhoto to change things. At this time your two choices are to put things back exactly like they were or recreate your library which will lose your edits, albums, etc
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