Iphoto trouble and library trouble.....plez plez help

Ok here goes I have all my photos stored on an external harddrive. The other day while i was viewing my pictures my external got unplugged and all the pictures suddely turned grey. They continued to do this even when i restarted iphoto and plugged my harddrive back in. Then i decided to import all the pictured again from my external harddrive and somehow it added them all to my labtop making the program slow. So i then just went into iphoto and hit select all and then clicked delete. The photos are still safe on the external. My question is is that i'm trying to make a new library because when the program can't find an iphoto library it asks me to locate it which i want it to do. Its like there is a "hidden" library on my labtop that i can't find. PLez help this is driving me crazy. If you don't understand i'll clarify......

Great! I'm glad the worst didn't happen. One thing you can do to check your library is to move the size slider all the way to the right, then click the down arrow to scroll through your photos. Chances are that if you can see your photos at their largest size, then the database is fine. You can also do some spot checking - double click on some photos to see if they open in edit mode. If so, then iPhoto has not lost the links to your photos.
If you start noticing strange behavior you can do the auto database rebuild. Launch iPhoto while holding Option and Command. Check the first 3 options in the dialog box, then click Rebuild. It can take a while if you have a lot of photos. For more information on the rebuild, read this Apple article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947

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