IPHOTO LIBRARY ICON TURNED INTO MANAGED FOLDER

I recently moved my iPhoto library from Time Capsule to an exthd and now I see 'folders' for my iPhoto libraries instead of that main icon (which I used to simply click on and it launched the program).
Originally this exthd was on my PC. I took this exthd and reformatted for my Mac. I then connected the exthd to the Time Capsule which is hooked up to the main house PC (diff from mine) - and this is where it gets strange..... I was unable to see the TC (nor the exthd) from this main PC so I went back on MY PC and there I was able to manipulate the data between the exthd and TC. I transferred all necessary data from TC to this exthd.
All seemed fine until I hooked up the exthd to my Mac and tried to launch iPhoto. I see folders instead of that icon for the libraries. How do I launch the program to open up my library? I'm not sure what I did to make that change or if I did something wrong. Anyone know?
I would appreciate the help! Thx!

Maybe I made this more confusing than necessary, eh? Sorry! I don't even know if all this background explanation matters. In case it does, I've tried to do a better job explaining below. But what it boils down to is the fact that my libraries, which are now stored on an exthd, which is hardwired to my mac, are showing up as folders. Is there any way to convert them back to the package bundle?
---> I still have the libraries on the TC showing in the common package bundle and I'm able to open them with no problems.
background babble:
We have 3 computers. 2 windows os(pc#1 and pc#2) and 1 mac. The main pc (pc#1) has the TC hardwired and pc#2 and mac are wireless to this network. I was having lots of problems with iPhoto and was informed that my troubles were due to the fact that I have my libraries stored on the TC and am accessing them wirelessly. I wanted to avoid any major issues in the future so I converted my exthd from pc#2 for use with the mac. After completing that, I hardwired the exthd to the TC and copied the libraries. Once copied to the exthd, I hardwired this unit to the mac. Both libraries show up as folders. I don't understand what happened.

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