Iphoto 08 - photos not loading

Someone, please help!
I was in the process of moving iphoto to an external drive (RAID 1) in order to free up some space on my desktop.
I copied iphoto library to my external drive then renamed the original iphoto library as iphotolibrary.old
Photos were showing in both libraries.
I have not yet deleted any version of iphoto.
I shut the computer down overnight with the intention of completing the process the next day.
It was then that I realised that the mac had not shut down properly and asked me to restart. This then brought me to a black screen telling me that there was a shut down error and to press and hold the back button to close the mac down, then turn it on again to restart. I did this.
Now when I launch iphoto (either from the internal or external hard drive), all the events, thumbnails and photos are greyed out. All items are still there according to the item and event count, and the photos still show in screensaver mode.
I have tried rebuilding the thumbnails (after quitting iphoto then holding cmd alt and relaunching) but it doesn't make a difference. I also don't have enough memory to rebuild the whole library.
Incidentally, I have noticed an additional iphoto library icon appear on my internal hard drive, measuring only 50.6MB compared to the original 115.92 GB.
What shall I do???? Please someone, help
Thank you

Hi LarryHN
Thanks so much for your response..
Yes, the external drive is formatted for mac - it was working with no probs yesterday.
Yes, I have been switching libraries as you suggested but regardless of which is selected, the photos won't open
I have also tried to restore an earlier version of iphoto library from my time machine back up but there is not enough space on my internal hard drive to do this....

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