Iphoto - thumbnails wrong

Hello,
I recently reinstalled my system fresh and ending up exctracting master copies of my old iphoto library (show package contents > masters). I imported all of those pictures into the new iphoto via file import. This was just fine (it took awhile but it worked. I haven't been able to verify with ALL of my pics survived the jump). Anyway my question or problem is when looking through the pictures (under "photos" on the left side bar). Most of the pictures work, but there seems to be like blasts of pictures that have a preview of 1 pic or several (extracted from a specific event) and then once opened displays an entirely different event. I'm not sure if there is a way to fix a problem such as this.
I did some reasearch on here and there was a similiar problem not the same I believe. ikarus84 mentioned a solution to that problem not sure if this will work for me, or if this was out of context.
"Finally I found the solution myself.
I tried first to fix it with the iPhoto Library Manager, but it hang up after hours of work because after restarting iPhoto to change the iPhoto Library, iPhoto tried to rebuild the thumbnails cache, which took again hours and ended every time in a hang up.
The solution is:
1. I deleted the files:
Thumb64Segment.data,
ThumbJPGSegment.data and
the folder "Thumbnails"
2. Then I used CMD-ALT during start of iPhoto to use the options:
Rebuild the photos small thumbnails
Rebuild all of the photo thumbnails
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17019661?searchText=iphoto%20thumbnails%20 not%20correct#17019661
any help will be apprciated.
Thanks.

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Include the option to rebuild the thumbnails. It can take 3 or 4 goes for this to work
Regards
TD

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