IPhoto 08 Help - iPhoto shows no photo's but data is still there.

Hi there.
I have a Macbook Pro 15" and am running iLife 08. Basically my harddrive isn't big enough for all my photos so for the past year I have been using an external harddrive to hold all my photo's and using an alias (named iPhoto Library, in the Pictures folder of my internal hd) to link to the actual data which is stored on my external hd. I have been doing this for over a year and it has been working perfectly.
This afternoon I went to import some more photos from my camera. So i did the usual thing (plugged in external hd, fired up iphoto 08, plugged in camera, imported photos) but when the import had finished, I accidentally took out the external hd usb instead of the camera usb. So i got the usual Device Removal error message but I thought all would be fine.
I plugged in the external hd again and restarted iPhoto (loads up fine) but it says no photos. It has no albums or thumnails or anything. It looks just like it did the very first time I opened it (before any photos had been imported).
So my heart jumped and missed a few beats with me thinking my external hd had lost all its data at the accidental removal, but it hasn't. It still has all the photos and data as it usually did (inside a package folder named Iphoto Library).
My question is how do I restore iPhoto so that it looks like it did yesterday? All the data is still there but iPhoto just doesn't display any of it? I have checked that iPhoto is opening the iPhoto Library alias but still no luck.
I have just as a precaution backed up the external hardrives 'iPhoto Library' folder onto a second external hard drive.
Thanks in advance, let me know if you need any screenshots/screenrecordings.
Pete

Yes have tried that. I set up the alias because I originally had the photos on my internal hard drive and then moved them across. I have tried holding command and alt whilst clicking iphoto and selecting the options to rebuild the library but it just takes 2 seconds and does nothing.
Any other ideas anyone?
Thanks again.

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