IPhoto launch issues after botched transfer of old Photos

I just purchased a new iMac yesterday and moved my old iPhoto Library from an external harddrive to iPhoto on my new Mac. The problem is that my last version on iPhoto was an older version and I didn't run the updater first (didn't know about it at the time). When I dragged the library over, it asked if i wanted to replace the library file (or reference to the file, i can't remember). I said yes and now my new iPhoto wont load. I just get a pop up box that says "To open your library with this version of iPhoto, it first needs to be prepared".
I installed the updater but it still does not open. I'd like to restore iPhoto back to it's original state and transfer my photos properly. Any ideas?

You have to install And Run the library upgrader - go to yoru applications folder ==> utilities and run it then launch iPhtoo to complete the upgrade
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