I'm trying to find a way to move pictures from Preview to iPhoto. Tried "rebuilding  library"...nothing happens.  Help!

I'm trying to find a way to move pictures from Preview to iPhoto. Tried "rebuilding  library"...nothing happens.  Pictures ssomehow wound up in Preview after I needed to do a clean install (Snow Leopard) and moved files from an external drive. Help!

If you saw the images with Preview in the other iPhoto Library, than try to open iPhoto with that Library:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2505
If the Photos are there, replace the iPhoto Library in your Pictures folder with the one from the external.  (posted by Keith)
My response:
The pictures don't appear in Preview in the other user account.  They also don't appear in the external drive (!!!????).  I discovered I can get the pictures into iPhoto by saving from Preview to the desktop, then importing into iPhoto, but only one at a time.
Clearly the files are on the hard drive somewhere, but where?  The  'iPhoto library" icon that appears in my Pictures folder is a "package" which can't be opened on it's own....it's only able to be  imported into Preview.
This feels like the Twilight Zone to me.....

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