How can I restore an older, large iPhoto library?

I switched from a laptop [MacBook Pro 15inch 2.53GHz Mac OS X (last job I left)] to all I could afford... Mac Mini... I kept my rather large iPhoto library (132gig approx) on an external Hard Drive. Somewhere along the line, after switching to the Mini, my iPhoto stopped being able to access my old iPhoto library from my external hard drive.
Please help if you can... Somegood pictures and videos
So Grateful, (*-*)

THe critical question is
One thing you could check immediately is the formatting of your external drive. Is it formatted MacOS X Extended? The current iPhoto 9.4.x will not open libraries on a disk with the wrong formatting. You should see the formatting in the Get Info panel - select the drive in the Finder and press the key combination ⌘I.
Does the format show as MacOS X Extended (Journaled)?
Withou answering specific questions it is not possible to assist - without correct and complete information we would only be making wild guessses and might make things worse
Other questions that you did not answer
What is your current iPhoto version?
What exactly is happening, when you are trying to use your iPhoto library on the external drive? Do you get an error message? If yes, which message?
And which iPhoto version created your iPhoto library? We need to know more, to be able to help.
Also please verify that your profile is correct and that you have OS X version 10.7.5
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