IPhoto not completely restoring.

My wife turned the power off on the iMac while I was trying to delete several events from iPhoto. The library could then not be opened. I tried rebuild under the "option + command" menu when I tried to restart. Nothing worked. So, I resorted from a previous library using TM but it doesn't see that all the pictures come over. Some do but I mainly get event headings but no pictures. I've tried rebuild thumbnails using the "option + command" menu but it seems like only a few more show up. The original file that got corrupted when the wife turned off the power was about 80GB. The current on that comes over only comes over at around 18GB.
What am I doing wrong?  Can I just copy from TM to a flash drive and then try to restore from that copy?  Any suggestions are welcome. I am running Lion on a early 2009 iMac 20 inch.
Thanks in advance.

How are you restoring?  The correct method is to launch Time Machine and go back to the time you want to restore from, select the iPhoto library and click restore
If you are having issues with TM post them in the TM forum
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