Event titles gone after external backup. How do I get them back?

My husband backed up my photos today from my iphoto 09 onto an external hard drive.  Now I only have 11 even ttitles from the past 5 years or so.  And 10 of those events only have 1 or 2 pictures.  The first event is titled Nov. 27, 2003 - July 28, 2012.  All of my pictures seem to be there and in I think they are even in order but none of the event titles are there...making it very difficult to sort through them and find pictures.  I have over 17,000 pics so I really need those titles.  Any suggestions on how to get them back?  My husband swears he didn't do anything during the backup process to cause this problem.

I am sorry. I am new at this.
he opened my iphoto
in the Library he selected "photos"
He then went to the Edit menu and selected "select all"
He then went to Edit and selected "copy"
Then he had opened a "new folder" on my desktop
He openened that new folder and right clicked in the middle of it to get a menu and selected "paste items"
then he copied from that folder to the external hard drive.
He tells me he had trouble copying all the pictures directly from iphoto to the external hard drive. Something about how it was taking far longer than it should have to show progress and it looked like it was not working properly. So he stopped that and then did what I described above.
I hope I explained that right. I am so thankful for your help.
Lisa

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