IPhoto '09 gone wonky

For some reason I have lost most of my pictures in iPhoto. I have looked over this forum, and it seems that others are having similar problems with iPhoto '09. I checked my iPhoto date and it is version 8.1.2. I tried to restore it from my mackup disc, and it seems to be corrupted as well, in that all of the iPhoto pages that come up from the backup disc look just like the current on in iPhoto. I tried to rebuild the library, as per a suggestion from someone in the forum. Nothing changed.
All suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
rlmslo

Hi, LarryHN
It seems that about half of my over 5k pictures are missing. The current page that I see when I open iPhoto has none of my recent albums. When I click on one of the pictures in an album, it may open up as a regular photo, or it may have the ! mark. Many of the spots where a picture should be is just a thumbnail sized rectangle. What is really funny, is that when I open the time capsule to try and replace the flawed page with an older one with all of the correct pictures, all of the time capsule iPhoto pages are just like the damaged one my computer. What I am doing is opening iPhoto, then clicking on Enter Time Capsule.
Thanks for any assistance.

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