Iphoto data folder different than originals and modified

Some of the thumbnails in my Iphoto library have no picture file linked to them.
I played with some pictures which were brought onto my computer from a camera with the time poorly set up. In doing so, some of the pictures in the data folder cannot be found in Iphoto. They are all there when I search through the originals and modified folders. It seems I may be able to replace contents of the data folder with contents from the orig/mod folders, seeing as all of the data is on an external drive.
I routed Iphoto to use the backed up library as its source. All seems well, except for the folder issue. Is there and easy solution?

I moved a bunch of folders around to open up space on my meager 80g HD Macbook so I could up grade to SL and not risk loosing any data. I moved the iphoto library to the external HD. I may have updated a previous back up and not changed the Data folder in the process. I think I updated the original and modified folders only into the HD's previous iphoto backup. The only folders I moved out of the original Iphoto folder in "pictures" were the modified and original folders because they were the largest files. The data folder and all others remain unchanged.
Once SL was up and running smoothly, I opened Iphoto with the option button pressed and chose the program to read the pics from the Iphoto library on the external drive.
Interestinly, When I did the same thing with my Itunes library it took about 20 minutes to load the library, in contrast, Iphoto was instant. Like it was reading the data folder within the computers HD and searching for the picture in the external. Movie clips seem to not be working at all. They don't seem to open QT automatically, or even work when it's open.

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