IPhoto library moved, missing pictures

Yesterday I was looking for my iPhoto library and clicked on the backup which was last updated March. As it is on external hard drive, now when I open up my iPhoto it goes to those pictures, without the pictures from the last 9 months.
Everytime I look for them, it links me to the old library.
Any way to find and reinstall the current library, as I can't find it?

Thank you, this is exactly the problem.
It seems that I had two iPhoto libraries named 'IPhoto library' on each drive and when I clicked on the external drive it went to the old drive.
Thank you for the help, as now I can run two separate libraries.

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Looks like I'm back in business!
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this may help, I've tried it but haven't checked my screen saver to see if it can find all the photos
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Re: Moving iPhoto to external drive
Posted: Jan 8, 2010 8:18 AM in response to: Muppetchile
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1. Quit iPhoto
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3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
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