Hard Drive crash, photos gone...iPhoto inoperable. Help!

I had a tragic hard drive crash, 98 bad sectors. Computer guys installed new drive, did sector copy, installed Tiger. I seem to have lost my entire photo library (and music files C-Z) and now cannot even upload new photos from my camera. When I tried to open iPhoto it says "No Photo Library." When I choose "Create New" it doesn't work
I saw someone else's posting about Tiger having no iPhoto. Could this be part of the problem of a) why I can't open iPhoto, and b) why I can't find any of my old photos?
Thank you very much for your help. I lost thousands of pix (500 are archived online) and feel very heartsick about it all.

Maybe you can help me with another question.
The computer guy created two logins for me, one as
administrator, one as user. In one of them, I was
actually able to find the names of my old iPhoto
folders, but cannot open them or anything. They are
marked with small blue icons.
I assume that iPhoto will now start in each user account, and give you access to the iPhoto Library for each user. Log in to the user account from which you want photos transeferred. You will find a folder named "Shared" inside the folder named "Users" on your startup drive. In the "Shared" folder, create another temporary folder. Launch iPhoto and drag the selected images that are to be transferred to this temporary folder (you could just as well "export", but that will change the creation dates of the exported images). Quit iPhoto, log out of the account, and log in to the account that is to receive the images. Launch iPhoto in this account, activate the Finder and navigate to the "Shared" folder. Drag the temporary folder from "Shared" into the albums pane of the iPhoto window. The photos will be imported into this library, and an album created.
Also, I kept the old hard drive. Any chance I will
ever get my picture files off of it?
Quite possibly, yes, but it depends on how extensive the file damage was. It might be worth spending 30-some dollars for a FireWire enclosure to see if the disk can be mounted on the desktop (in which case you can drag folders onto your healthy drive), or whether an application like DiskWarrior can correct at least some of the problems.

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