IPhoto Only showing May/June 2008 Photos - 1993 - 2008 missing!

I have my iPhoto library on my 1TB TC. It is about 25GB in size.
When I open iPhoto it only shows the last two months photos the previous 15 years are missing!
I do have it fully backed up on another drive at another house. But I am very concerned as to what has happened to this one.
It looks like something happened a couple of months ago. The file is 25GB and if you open the package it has all the photos in date order under Data folder.
How do I get iPhoto to re-open all the missing years.
I am on the road for a few days from Sunday morning so if there are any suggestions I'll work them through when I get back.
If anyone has any ideas on how to recover these photos it would be very helpful.
Also, if anyone has any ideas on how I could manage these photos better I would appreciate it. The system worked really well when I could keep them all in folders in date order with a subject for each theme. iPhoto is helpful but gets really very slow indeed.

I only have 2GB on my iMac 2GHz iMac maybe if I had more it would be better?
That is way too low for reasonable performance. It's usually suggested you have a minimum of 15GB free space on the boot drive and more like 25 GB if you use iDVD. I think you'll see a big improvement in performance if you create more free space on the boot drive.
One way to regain some real estate on the boot drive is to use Monolingual to remove the unneeded language modules. Be sure not to delete the English module or very bad things will happen. I've recovered up to 2-3 GB when I've run it on installations that have not been cleaned out previously.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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