Cannot access photos inside of event

So my sister has a Macbook Pro running OS X Mountain Lion, and for some strange reason decided to go with a Windows phone instead of an iPhone when AT&T offered her a phone upgrade. She decided to go with the Samsung Focus SGH-i1719, and she's regretted it ever since.
While using Windows Phone Connector for Mac to sync the phone to the Mac successfully, the way the Windows program copied the files is somewhat strange. All of her pictures from the phone that were copied off and transferred to the Mac are in iPhoto. Fair enough, but I can't access them. An event in iPhoto was created called "Camera Roll" which contains the camera roll from her phone. Underneath the event, the date range of the pictures and the number of photos are displayed. According to this, there are 219 photos in the Camera Roll event. However, whenever I double-click the event to access the photos, the only ones I see are 8 photos. Where are the rest of them, and how can I get to them? I do see them when I mouse over the event in iPhoto, but that's all.
Any advice would be appreciated!
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Apply the two fixes below in order as needed to the library:
Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button and select the library you want to add in the selection window..
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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