IPhoto 08 to 09 Migration --- Images have disappeared?

Hi -
I upgraded my iPhoto 08 to 09 last week. Things went smoothly - I thought. Now, when I click on SOME photos (not all) -- the thumbnails are appearing -- when they enlarge, a large exclamation point appears in black and white.
Any ideas on what to do?
Thanks
kmw

iphoto library manager took all day and all night to rebuild my library .... I finally had to stop it because I am leaving for the week (it was on faces rebuild - which I didn't care about, as I have barely done any faces recognition stuff yet). Anyway, I went into the folders where I knew previous photos had been missing and here's what I found:
1) Some photos were missing altogether (these appeared in the iphoto library manager's missing photos log) --- I will have to manually load these now, right?
2) Some events are completely gone (I know one of these was where photos were appearing missing).
Do I need to run rebuild when I have 48 hours to let the entire program run?
Also - this has crossed my mind:
Several weeks ago, I posted here about needing a second file of photos on my computer (in folders - my copy of my photos from my PC) and everyone responded that I did not ---- I have a sneaking suspicion that those photos WERE linked into iPhoto and now that is why some photos were missing? Although i'm not sure how all photos were not affected then?
What is my next step? Rebuild the library is the places where I know photos are missing? Is there a way to open my original library (where at least thumbnails of all photos were showing) and somehow get a list of all events out of it, so I can open the rebuilt library and identify what is missing for sure? I don't want any photos to get lost in the mix. It seems I should start from my rebuilt library to do this manual rebuilt? OR is there a way to trace back my original library to the missing photos (luckily, I still have my PC folders on an ext. hard drive), as this has some of my projects, etc, that I would like to keep?
Thanks for the help.
kmw

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