IPhoto Library corrupted!!! or not.

I believe my iPhoto library is corrupted. Am I right in assuming that the photos additional information I added has been lost. My concern is that there is around 9,500 photos that have been grouped, people/places have been named. I prefer not to do all this again. Any suggestions would help. I have only basic knowledge and need step by step help.
Many thanks in anticipation
Grant

I was doing an import but iPhoto crashed. The report is at the bottom. Every time I open it, it crashes immediately. This report is produced.  I created a new library as a test and it works fine.  But all my photos are in the original library and I can't import from the original library into a new one or least I don't know how to.
My profile is still correct.
Also I cannot find the first aid in iPhoto.
I hope this helps.
Process:         iPhoto [4938]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         9.4.3 (9.4.3)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-720091000000000~1
App Item ID:     408981381
App External ID: 15017489
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [160]
User ID:         502
Date/Time:       2014-11-07 09:01:23.342 +1000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
Report Version:  10
Interval Since Last Report:          69645 sec
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  231880 sec
Anonymous UUID:                      FBB31434-FB24-C0B5-A984-1552139A2C56
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:]: object cannot be nil'

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