How to restore an iPhoto Library after hdd change?

Hi all!
I just had my old 120gig hdd changed on my MBP to a 500 one and all my files have been restored on there apart of my iPhoto library under Lion.
I also had a backup done on time machine but unable to find the file of the library to restore it to iPhoto.
What can I do to find my pics back in iPhoto? Are they lost for ever?
Thx a lot in advance for your answers!
Tenbee

Well I've been backing up my computer with TM for about 2 years now every few months now.
About a year ago my motherboard didn't want to do it's job anymore so got it changed...restored the computer then with TM but somehow got a prob doing that for some weird 'user' problem, been told that was normal since the TM could not recognize the new motherboard.
Now when I enter TM i cant find this long sought after iphoto library file, but when i go into my TM 'manually' through finder, i see under 'users' 2 different users which are both mine, one with my first name, the other one with firstname followed by familiy name.
I then found out that the library was in only 1 of those 'users', it also shows 35gig, and if i double click it to open it says it is a TM backup and cant open it just like that, so here i am back to square 1 trying to find a file not appearing in TM...

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