Iphoto upgrade problem

I just bought iPhoto '11 for my Mac from Apple online store, and installed it yeasterday around 10 pm, so far it has shown a spinning wheel (no rainbow wheel) after more than 12 hours, I have about 7000 (7k) photos, 20 GB size, what should I do? I was told do not force it to quit, shall I keep waiting? How much longer should I wait? Any suggestion? Can I force quit it? How to restore the old system, I know I can get photolibrary back from time machine, but not sure what other files to recover?

@TomekP -- Please read the post carefully
You can restore your iPhoto library from before the upgrade and reinstall iPhoto from the original sourced and update it up to version 9.2.2 -- or you can restore the library and depress teh option and command keys and rebuild it - that should work with 9.3
Reinstalling the previous version will not work unless you RESTORE the previous library as instructed - if you do as instructed it will work
LN

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