IPhoto transfer to external hard drive to Macbook Pro

Hello,
I just had my hard drive replaced in my Macbook Pro, but had backed up all of my pictures in iPhoto to my iomega external hard drive before the Apple Store wiped my computer clean. I am trying to enter my time machine to retrieve the photos, but it will not let me click on a date past today. Can anyone offer advice to how I can get my pictures back? I thought I had taken all the necessary steps prior to getting my new hard drive and could access the photos via time machine before the update, as I had double checked I did the back up right.
Thanks!

1 - no - if you do not like or use iPhoto then yu have no need for the iPhoto library - it is sefl contained and deleting it will not affect anything except iPhoto
2 - you can export photos form iPhoto to any format drive - it is only the iPhoto library that has drive format restrictions
Reformatting a drive totally erases it so you can not simply change the format of a drive without removing everything on it
3 - deciede what you want - if you use iPhoto then it has no cross platform capability and nothing you do in iPhoto is directly of use on a PC - you have to export from iPhoto to a volume that a PC can read
Since you do not like or use iPhoto and it will not do what you want I have no idea why you are messing with it at all
LN

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