How do I restore my iPhoto from Time Machine?

So my 1TB HD died and I put back my 500GB HD that was intact, but the iPhoto library was upto November 2010.
My last time machine back up was May 2011 and lots of Photos and Videos were added between Nov and May.
I went into Time Machine to do a selective restore. iTunes, iPhoto, Documents. would be the preferred.
The data is on the back up, but the "restore" button is greyed out and I can't click on Restore.
How can I get my Photos and video clips back into iPhoto as an overwrite or restore?

For TM questions there is a TM forum
In general you launch Time machine and go back in time to the time you want - select the iPhoto library (by default in your pictures folder) and click restore
What is the reason you are trying to restore an older iPhoto library?
what does
I can open the old library when I hold option, but it can't get it to stay.
Mean?
LN

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