IPhoto update and Won't open and lost all of my images !?!

I'm a photography student and store my images in iphoto, I updated it today, once its finished I go to look in iphoto and it says that my mac is too old for the newer version! ITS LESS THAN 6 MONTHS OLD! I then went onto finder to see if my images are still there and theres nothing there! Please can someone try and help me retreive them, Theres photos that I need in order to finish my degree!!!!

I plugged in the external with my backed up library and we told it needed to update the library to open it.  I am concerned this will mss up like the library on my MBP.
Copy this Library to your Main Hard Drive (a different folder than the current iPhoto Library) and open it with iPhoto:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
It will open and update the Library. If it works, trash the damaged one and put this one it it's place.
With Time Machine you can restore just elements, you don't have to restore the whole system
Regards
TD

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