Iphoto 6.0.5 won't locate/switch photo albums; help!

I just upgraded yesterday to 6.0.5, my iphoto library is stored on my external drive. now however whenever iphoto starts up with or without the drive, it loads a "phantom" cached library with no images. It has all the info albums, library, even photo titles, EXCEPT the images; and when you click on the blank images and select <show file> or <show original file> it opens a finder window highlighting my macintosh HD and no other i photo anywhere in sight. Ive tried reseting, erasing files from the library but can't get back the option to choose my iphoto library. Is this a bug on the upgrade? Any help would be much appreciated. thanks.

Well that worked really well! And here i was trying just about everything, thanks TD!
tyler_sebastian
Have you tried opening iPhoto while holding down the
Option key, and using the resulting dialogue to
navigate to the Library on the external HD?
Regards
TD

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