IPhoto lost all it's photos!

I had an MDD dual and when it died, I put it's drives in a firewire 800 four-bay tower hooked to my new Dual G5. A while ago, the firewire port died and the volume with the iPhoto library on it disappeared from the desktop. So, I bought a new Intel MacPro and all the volumes on the firewire tower have mounted again, but when I go to iPhoto it appears to be linked to the library on the old ATA drive in the firewire tower, but no photos are in iPhoto. It opens blank and the albums are empty.
Can this be rescued and re-linked and what do I do?

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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I recently moved all of the photos from my photos library over to an external hard drive (almost none of them were from iPhoto, mostly downloads and wallpapers) would this have caused the problem?
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Click to view full size
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