IPhoto Backup to External HD not working.  Any tips?

Hi there. My hard drive is getting full of photos so I would like to put an iPhoto library of old photos on my external HD and keep new photos on my laptop HD. I researched the message board and found the following instructions (thanks to TD):
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1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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I followed these steps but am having a problem with steps 3 and 4. I copied the laptop HD iPhoto library to the external HD, and then as a quality check I added one extra photo to my laptop HD iPhoto library (the external HD copy does not have this extra photo). I then launched iPhoto holding control, and through the Finder window I clicked on the iPhoto library in the external HD. However, when iPhoto opens, the library that appears HAS the extra photo. In other words, it looks like iPhoto is launching the local laptop iPhoto library and not the external HD iPhoto library. So I'm having difficulty confirming that the "old" iPhoto library was, in fact, copied to the external HD and that I can access that external HD iPhoto library from iPhoto.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!

To clarify, I launched iPhoto holding COMMAND, not control. Thanks.
Yes, but the instructions say to hold the option (or alt) key
Hold down the *option (or alt) key* while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
Regards
TD

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