IPhoto Photos missing after Repair, Rebuild

Hi folks - I hope you can help.
The problem: my iPhoto loads and shows all my thumbnails perfectly. Click on an album though and their are no images. The library is still full sized and I have tried both a repair, and then rebuild to sort the problem. Bizzarely my Aperture installation still works fine as far as I can tell - the photos are still there.
I am loathed to back-up from a previous point as it takes an age, and would be at the expense of some recent shots that would require a manual save out and re-import. It also wouldn't diagnose the problem which could re-emerge.
The background: I have an enormous 175Gb library which I am trying to thin carefully. iPhoto crashes have plagued me from the start with this 2011 Macbook Pro. I updated the ram to 8Gb on the advice of a 'genuis' to make it work better. It hasn't helped much.
About two months ago I bought aperture in the hope that it would help my editing and thinning process. I have not used it much but I have edited and rated a few events in it.
I am using:
iPhoto 9.4.3
OSX 10.7.5

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places 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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