Dreaded dotted gray lines - after rebuild

Recently copied my iPhoto Library to my external hard drive about 3 times, as I added a few more photos (was trying to finish out my 08 library and start a new one). After the 2nd time, I think, I started getting the dotted gray lines to appear for all of the older photos (that had existed for the first copy to the hard drive). The thumbnails are all still there, but when trying to edit or whatever, the dotted line box appears.
I tried a rebuild with no improvement. I also tried a rebuild through iPhoto Library Manager. It said something like xxxx photos could not be found, and to look at the console (?) or something, which I missed before I closed the window (oops). It could not find any of those older photos.
Are my photos toast? I am clinging to some hope based on the fact that the older thumbnails are still there.
Please advise.

1- if you have multiple ocpies of your iPhoto library you first need to be sureyou are using the coorect one - launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and use the select library option
2 - which version are you using - you posted in the iPhoto 6 forum but talk about iPhoto '08?
3 - see TD's discussion in this thread -http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1852349&tstart=0
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