IPhoto just won't open

We have two different login names on our iMac and both of them have iPhoto on them. iPhoto will open on one of the logins, but on my login it simply won't open. When I click on the iPhoto icon a bold question mark appears on the icon and nothing will come up. I've tried to download newer versions of iPhoto since the time I found out it doesn't work. However, whenever I try to download them, the computer sends me a message that either says "newer versions of iPhoto are already downloaded" or "there are no applications already existing". Those messages are rather contradicting, and I have no idea how to solve my problem. I had a lot of photos on iPhoto, and I can't find some of them since it hasn't worked. There are still a few that I have left, and i have to open them with the Preview program which has no features other than rotating the picture. I would really like to find my missing photos and be able to use iPhoto again...please help me!
iMac

Thanks for your help, I found my missing pictures in the iPhoto Library folder. Although I still can't get iPhoto to work. I went to the Applications folder to try to open iPhoto, but there isn't an icon for it in there. When I click on the icon on the dock and tell it to show in the Finder, nothing happens. Finder doesn't even open.
I do have an iPhoto library in my Pictures folder, so I did get all of my pictures back. I did get one hit when I searched for iPhoto.db and it is located in the iPhoto Library, which is in located in the Pictures folder. I can't open this file though because, "There is no default application specified to open the docment 'iPhoto.db'." I am able to pick an application to open it, but even so I don't know which one is best.
And one last thing, I haven't ever changed my short user name.
Thanks a lot for your help!

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