IPhoto not displaying photos

First off, I am no expert (thats why I am here) but I have been using Macs and iPhoto for some time. I am on an iMac i5 / OSX 10.7.2 / iPhoto 11
After upgrading to Lion, my iPhoto doesn't display all of my photos. In fact, it only displays a small portion of them. Let me break down my observations and what I have tried:
- Many months worth of pics not displayed in the open application
-Pics ARE present in the "contents" of the iPhoto package. They are organized of course in the crazy folder system but eventually I was able to track them down. But iPhoto doesn't display them when open. Many events missing.
-All albums show up empty now because the likely contained photos from the missing events
-I figure something is corrupted so I did a rebuild with apple/option and openning iPhoto. This took forever and in the end it was the same. I believe I clicked all the options when doing so.
-I have searched high and low for the iPhoto plist. I know it sounds crazy but I can't find it anywhere (not in user/library/preference/... lots of other plists there but not for iPhoto). Supposedly it has to exist if I have ever openned iphoto, but I don't know where else to look.
My end goal is to display all the pics and keep them in their appropriate events. Not overly concerned about albums or titles or other info.
I am even willing to just start from scratch with a totally new iPhoto library if that will fix my problem and if things will be put into the current events by date. But I am not sure what the best way to do that would be.
I have read the forums carefully and can't seem to find the solution. Any and all sugestions welcome.
Thanks.
Nick

I will get that for you soon... I am currently importing photos into a brand new iPhoto since I wasn't having luck with the rebuild. Only 12k more to go... It won't let me recreate the error while importing in iPhoto.
As I mentioned above, I created one new library, but didn't like that it put everything into just two events. I deleted the whole thing in hopes that I could get something else to work. In the end I am back to creating a new library and then plan to ask iPhoto to split the events (didn't see that option the first time around). A lot of extra work.
I would like to know what you think about the error it was giving me. As I mentioned at the beginning, I have been unable to find the iPhoto plist anywhere. I looked everywhere it is supposed to be and have had zero luck. I understand that that seems almost impossible, but its true. This might have something to do with the plist error I recieved.
Also, when using iLM, the option to create a new library gives me a sort of skeleton of my other, corrupted library. It lists all the albums and even has the events labeled and dated but there is no content anywhere, not even thumbnails, just the default gray palm tree of an empty event. Not sure what to make of that.
I'll post the error when I can if it doesn't get to late. ( I live in Spain so I'm at least 6 hours ahead of the states!)
Nick

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