IPhoto just "upgraded" library and "erased" everything

MacBook Pro Retina 15 (Mid 2012)
Yosemite 10.10.1
2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8GB
iPhoto 9.6 (910.29)
Library: ~42,000 Photos (~177GB)
I keep my library on my external HD and have been meaning to make a backup just in case something like this happened.
The other day, I opened my library and everything was fine. Then it froze up and I shut it down, I don't remember if I force quit or not. When I went to reopen iPhoto there was the gray loading icon in the middle and the pointer turned into the pinwheel. I let it run for a little and then nothing happened so I force quit. Tried again.
Ended up holding CMD + OPTN when opening iPhoto to do a rebuild but it never seemed to work.
Got home, cleared space on my ext HD to duplicate my iPhoto library. Opened iPhoto again when I had free time during the snow day yesterday and it brought up a message saying that the library or iPhoto needed to be upgraded and it won't be compatible with previous versions or something like that.
iPhoto opened and it was empty! So I checked the iPhoto file/folder and it still said 177GB so I knew my photos were still there.
NOW I was able to do a proper rebuild and I worked my way down to that through the four option provided by iPhoto.
End result: All photos (assumed because it says ~42,000+) are now in a Recovered folder in iPhoto but all Albums, Events, Faces and any other form of organization is missing. I don't want to have to redo the past 4 years of organizing.
Also, I still have the iPhoto library copied (pre-rebuild albeit post-damage.)
I have also downloaded iPhoto Library Manager and it manages to show the Events and albums but they have nothing in them. They all show "(0)"
I would like to recover the file(s) that organized my iPhoto library. Please help!

Thanks. No backup unfortunately. Is there a way to dig for a file that contains the Albums, Events etc. data?
Here are the dialogs that have popped up when trying to Repair then Rebuild:
FIRST (with no option but to upgrade)
THEN THIS

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