IPhoto Backup from External HD- ?

I just backed up my entire system to an external HD. Because I am about to upgrade this particular system to Leopard, I want to make sure my 5,000 photos on that system are surely and properly backed up. I did the backup and when it was done I hooked up the external backup HD to another, newer, Mac to check that all of those photos were there. Well, the Mac I hooked it up to has an iPhoto library of it's own, many (probably all) which are duplicates of the huge iPhoto library from the other Mac. This library only has about 600 photos in comparison to the 5,000 that should have been backed up.
Here's my issue: In the newer Mac, on which I am testing the backup, when I open my Backup HD and click on Users>myusername>Pictures>iPhoto Library, it opens iPhoto but all that shows up in iPhoto are the photos and events that were already in there (the 600 photos). On the bottom of iPhoto, it says "600 photos in 27 events." So, that makes my think my photos are not where they should be. However, when I go back to the finder, and navigate through my Backup HD's folders back to my iPhoto Library, it shows that it contains 25GB on disk, which is the same as the backup should have been (same amount of space taken up as on the old Mac with 5,000 photos. So, they must be in there, but how do I access them on a MacBook that already has an iPhoto Library?
Please let me know if any of this needs to be clarified. I'll stick around for a bit in hopes of a quick response from anyone! Thanks!!

quit iPhoto and start it with the option (alt) key depressed - choose the select library option and navigate to the library on the external HD that you want to check
Afterwards do it again and navigate back to the internal drive so you don't get confused after you move the external
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