IPhoto lost last 2 years of photos and now won't show thumbnails

Help!
We're running iphoto '08 on my wife's intel mac (Leopard). Yesterday for some reason iPhoto seemed to forget the last 3 years of photos... we still had photos and events from the years previous. Eventually, I deleted all the photos in the iphoto library and used time machine to restore the 12k photos from the iPhoto Library from about 2 weeks ago (they were all there).
I now have all the Photos and Events back in iPhoto, but none of the thumbnails show up. There are a bunch of blank thumbnails -- they are just black. When I click on the blank thumbnails the individual photos do show up, but it is very hard to look at library without thumbnails that show up.
Any assistance or tips would be appreciated. Thanks.
Rob

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
Regards
TD

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