I added a new hard disk now iPhoto doesn't work - help?

I had to have a new internal hard drive and even though some of my work was recoverable from the old disk I cannot now use iPhoto or iPages or Keynote or Numbers. What can I do to recover these apps?

Reinstall them from source.

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I am new to iPhoto, so be gentle. My daughter uses it a lot, and now I seem to have messed up her library. We are using iPhoto 4.0.3. OS 10.4.11
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That is the standard error you get when you try to import a photo that already resides inside the iPhoto Library folder. It prevents duplication in your library.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306336
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would like to request help if there are any settings i need to enable for a netra t1 to detect the new hard disks that were added on a dell disk array. the netra t1 is able to detect scsi hds 1-3 but not the 8-11. have checked netra t1 manual and it says that it supports both narrow and wide scsi. probe scsi only shows the following disks:
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