IPhoto '08 Missing 3000+ Photo's

I upgrade to Leopard Last Friday and have had no problems with iPhoto until this morning. When I opened it, I noticed that instead of my usual 3000+ photo's and related events, I had 100 photo's in (3) events. I checked and confirmed that the iPhoto Library is still the same size as before and when opened it, I found all of the photo's there. I restarted iPhoto holding down the Option+Command keys and tried all of the options to rebuild and/or fix the database to no avail. I know that I can manually re-import all of the photo's, however, they are mixed between the "Originals" and "Modified" meaning that it will take hours upon hours to sift through the right ones. Can anyone please give me some input into this in order to get my iPhoto up and running as usual.
BTW: The night before I ran the Disk Utility and checked/repaired my permissions and verified the disks. Everything was okay. Also, I removed some library files that belonged to some old programs. These files were not in any way related to iLife and iWork. I did not in any way move or modify anything related to iPhoto!

eMak
This sounds like a corrupted library file. Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums back.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
TD

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