CANNOT OPEN iPHOTO LIBRARY AFTER UPGRADE

I had a routine upgrade message last night so hit Install. My iPhoto logo changed from the yellow with palm tree to a new one with a blue background and a flower. There was an error message during the update of my library (24000 images) and now says my library is corrupt and should be opened from back up. I plugged in my EHD with the back up, previously there had been the iPhoto Icon with the palm tree. That had gone and was a blank page logo. I hit open and was told it needed to upgrade my library to work with the new iPhoto. This is what had happened on the MacBook Pro (Mar 2011) and failed during upgrade.
I have a time machine from 10 days ago and I can afford to go back to then as I can still back up any work not in my iPhotos library. Photos saved in folders outside the library work fine. I use Adobe CS5 Photoshop for my main images but all my shoots automatically store in IPhoto library. Could I be storing them better?
Thanks
Jules

Back up corrupted to, thank God I got apple care, they talked me through! I opened iPhoto icon from the dock while holding CMD and ALT, I got four options, I tried all of them and after three had failed I did the rebuild option that said only to use after the other had failed. Worked a treat.

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