Installed New Hard Drive and moved iPhoto library manually to new HD

I dragged my old iphoto library to new hd but when i opened it up i have a ton of duplicate photos and events dont seem to be in order?  Any help with restoring iphoto events to their old self is greatly appreciated!

Your "Firefox personal data", like bookmarks, are stored in your Profile folder in Firefox. See this support article about how to recover that data from that old hard drive and transfer it your your new Profile.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

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