IPhoto 9 and TM restore problem

Had a hard drive "fail" in a Macbook (kids spilled cocoa pebbles on it while watching cartoons on youtube...). Time Machine on USB drive attached to Airport Extreme backing up. Put in new drive; started off DVD; told to restore. After it was done went to iPhoto; all picture thumbnails were there but when click on shows a black screen with an ! in it. Tried to rebuilt library, now only have 3 events that do the same black screen with ! when clicked on. Have not touched backup drive since started on this. The iPhoto library was 164 gigs before the drive died, had backed up right before it happened. Everything else appears fine, just iPhoto library. When look at iPhoto library shows only 3-4 gig size on any time machine date I pick. Any ideas?

Using TM, I have gone back day by day and tried to see what happens, no luck. Inside iPhoto using browse backups it shows just the three events; I will look again tonight to make sure not missing something. iPhoto has crashed a few times when in browse backups though.
Now, all I should have to do it open TM and browse backwards and select restore on the iPhoto file that I want to restore, correct?
We had like 85,000 photos and a number of short movies.
Have some of them on other computers, some on older (smaller) drives, but there are some that were only on that hard drive and I just hate the thought of losing them. Was just sure TM would take care of it.

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