Imported photos disappeared from iPhoto '11

I have iPhoto '11 v9.4.3 on Macbook Pro running OSX 10.7.5. I recently imported about 1,000 photos into my existing iPhoto library and everything was successful. I even spent a few hours organizing and editing them in iPhoto. However, the next day I reopened iPhoto to do some more editing and as iPhoto was opening it said it was updating my thumbnails (which I've never seen that message before) and now the 1,000 pictures I loaded the day before are not showing in iPhoto. All my other pictures are showing fine, but not the ones I recently added. If I click on "Events" I can see the event I created when I was but it's grayed out and says no photos. Any ideas on how to fix? Many thanks.

Thank you LN. And so you would recommend the "Rebuild your Database" Option vs. the "Rebuild Thumbnails" or "Repair Database". If I go with the "Rebuild your Database" option, will this fix or remap to the existing database or will it create a new database and keep the old one intact (and thus taking up 2x the memory)?

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