IPhoto updated after a restore and now I am missing photos and cannot further update iPhoto

I needed to restore my iMac after the hard drive crashed. I use TimeMachine and the restore process went OK. However, when I restored I noticed I had a new version of iPhoto. I previously had a really old version and now I had iPhoto 11. It appears that I have been updated to iLife 11. All was good, but I soon started to notice some issues:
(1) Some photos are not displaying in iPhoto. Basically there is just a dotted square where the photo should be. The meta-data is present (e.g. camera details, etc..) but when I select the "Reveal in Finder" menu option, I get "The operation can't be completed becasue the item can't be found". Note that this is only for a small % of my photos. The large majority are OK.
(2) I am unable to update the iLife apps in the App store. I receive the following message if I try to download an update: “You have updates available for other accounts…” I have only ever had 1 account.
Help appreciated.
I am running OSX v10.8.3 on a 2.8GHx Intel Core I7 27inch iMac.
Regards,
Anita

Anita,
“You have updates available for other accounts…” I have only ever had 1 account.
You may accidentally have created a second account.
How exactly did you restore your iMac after the hard drive crashed? Did the store, that replaced the drive, install MacOS for you and you used Migration Assistant to restore from Time Machine afterwards, or did you reinstall Mt. Lion yourself and used the Setup Assistant to restore your mac from Time Machine, or did you restore manually?
If the Store set up your mac and you migrated later, any new installed iLife apps may be tied to a different AppleID or no AppleID at all. Did you already sign into the AppStore with your AppleID (from the "Store > Sign In" menu)? Check, if the new version of iPhoto needs to be accepted to your Apple ID - in this case it will be in the "Accept" panel of the "Purchased" tab. If available, press "Accept".
Did you buy your Mac second hand? Then the preinstalled  iLife apps may be tied to the AppleID of the previous owner. In that case contact Apple Support.
Regards
Léonie
Some photos are not displaying in iPhoto. Basically there is just a dotted square where the photo should be.
Once the update problem is solved, I'd try to rebuild the iPhoto library.

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