Iphoto 6 shows only the last imported photos, doesn't include previous pics

History- when I first got the computer I didn't understand how iPhoto accessed its photos, and deleted some of the content from the iPhoto folder directly - since then every once in a while I get a window that asks me to rebuild my cache - the apple employees at the genius bar told me that if I rebuilt my cache, that the thumbnails wouldn't match, and I could possibly loose photos. So I have not updated the cache in 4 years, and have not had any problems.
Recently, my computer was slowing down, so I took it to the apple store and had them help me remove everything from the computer and placed onto an external drive, and then wiped the computer by reinstalling the system. Since then I have run iPhoto through my external hd, and did not replace ANYTHING onto the computer - everything is on the external hd. had no problems for a year. After this last upload(about a week ago) to iPhoto I noticed that it caused all previous photos (10,000+) to disappear - the only ones that were in the library were the ones I just uploaded.
I then returned to the apple store and they used the option "create new library" to find the existing library.. but the computer was not even allowing the library file to be clicked on. So, for some reason the old photos are gone, and it wont allow the existing library to be chosen - yet there are still photos that it is accessing from that same library.
Now when I open iPhoto, I get a message that says "In this version of iPhoto, the thumbnails have been improved. Upgrading the thumbnails will take a while, depending on the number of photos in your library. Do you want to upgrade your thumbnails now?"
I am afraid that if I do this, it will cause the same problem of confusing the program, and not having the thumbnails match the iPhoto files, possibly causing me to loose photos.
Is this message the reason why I can't access the old photos in the library? How would you suggest I go about correcting this problem in a way that I don't loose photos?

I didn't understand how iPhoto accessed its photos, and deleted some of the content from the iPhoto folder directly
This corrupted your library - b continuing to use a corrupted library you have continued the problem and it sounds like it finally has come in to bite you
You can try using iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to rebuild your library - this creates a totally new library so if the results are not acceptable you can go back to what you have
other than that you have no choice I am aware of except to start over - drag the iPhoto library to the desktop and launch iPhoto and create a new library - open the old corrupt iPhoto library and open the originals folder and drag each folder in it onto iPhoto recreating your rolls but losing all edits and other changes
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