IPhoto in one of my accounts cannot find library

About four months ago i purchased an additional external hard drive because my wife bought an SLR camera and we needed additional room for the photos. I figured while I was at it, I would used the external photo library to share the library between our two accounts; something I'd been wanting to do for a long time. I also did the same with iTunes. I also added the new external drive to the hard drives backed up by Time Machine. Both iPhoto and iTunes worked great and we've been sharing without any problems until today.
My wife opened iPhoto in her account this afternoon and there was nothing in it. We verified that the hard drive was connected and operating. We then checked to make sure the contents of the external drive were not corrupted or damaged. Then we checked to see if iPhoto opened in my account, which it could. Then to be totally sure it wasn't the hard drive i ran iTunes in both my wife's and my account. It ran fine.
I then figured that iPhoto had probably forgotten where the library was and created a new one, so I held down the command while opening to select the library on the external hard drive. It still wouldn't open. So I renamed the library in an effort to get it to open the window asking to find or create a library, but that window wouldn't open. I tried the same stuff in my account and it all still worked perfectly.
So basically the my iPhoto is working exactly as it should, but my wife's iPhoto can't open up a library, nor will it let me create a new one. To top it all off, she's the photo person, so if I don't get this fixed, I'm in huge trouble.

Goodly Mam Mon
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so I held down the command while opening to select the library on the external hard drive.
to point to an iPhoto library you launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) - not the command - key - and use the select library option
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