IPhoto events folders have disappeared...

Hi. Some of my events folders seem to have disappeared from iPhoto (any folder containing photos from before October 2008). Does anyone know how I can retrieve them?? I'm freaking out - I haven't deleted anything, so I'm not sure where they've gone. Thanks!

Hi Terence,
I did a little research and the loss of all my event folders occurred on Oct. 23rd. That must be when I upgraded to iPhoto '11 v 9.2.1. Sounds about right to me as that is about the time we got our iPhone 4S's
If I restore the library from a Time Machine back up before Oct. 23rd in order to reclaim all my event folders, it will be a backup with the earlier version of iPhoto.
Because of that, do/can/should I:
1. First go into Time Machine and confirm I have a previous working version of iPhoto and all my pictures up to Oct. 23rd. (Assume it never hurts to double check these things.)
2. After confirming I have all my pics from before Oct. 23rd and a working previous version of iPhoto, delete iPhoto '11 v 9.2.1 from my MacBook Pro's Application folder and the iPhoto picture library in "Photo" in the Finder. Then bring back the earlier version of iPhoto with its pictures from a Time Machine backup before Oct. 23rd?
3. Upgrade to iPhoto '11 v 9.2.1 again from the Mac App Store (I assume it will cost nothing as I alreay bought it).
4. Hope that this time the upgrade doesn't result in removing all my events as happened the first time I installed iPhoto '11 v 9.2.1
I am thinking my only other option is to keep what I have, go into iPhoto and choose "Autosplit Events" (maybe choose 1 week as the event time span instead of 1 day). Connect my Time Machine backup harddrive to another computer that has the older version of iPhoto. Open my iPhoto library on that second computer and place it side by side with my computer move through the events on that second computer's iPhoto library and copy the event title and tidy up the events based on that second computer. Sounds pretty tedious, but my library goes back 11 years and there is no way I will remember what some of those earlier photos are about without some help.
I hoping, of course, your backup idea, will work despite the different versions of iPhoto I will have to deal with.
Thanks for all your help.
Mr. Luigi

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