IPhotos not showing up

trying to create a new web page in iweb,but my media in iphoto are not being displayed. I see the photo name but not the thumbnail of them. The iphoto libary is being stored on a Western digital external drive for space on my Mac HD.What is happening?

It's possible that not all of your photos in your iPhoto library have thumbnails...or they may have been corrupted. Try rebuilding your iPhoto library...this may take a while. This process will recreate thumbnails for each photo and also clean up your photo library. I recommend this process every now and then to maintain performance.
See this technical bulletin for more details...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
This may let the thumbnails show up in the media browser. In any case it will be healthy for your iPhoto library.
If this has been of any use to you, please mark this reply with the "solved" or "helpful" buttons in the title bar of this reply. Thanks.

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All of them were recognized and worked just fine before the last update. Now, some get recognized by iMovie 08, some others don't.
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Process:
iPhoto [2588]
Path:
/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:
com.apple.iPhoto
Version:
9.2.1 (9.2.1)
Build Info:
iPhotoProject-628000000000000~3
Code Type:
X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [2471]
Date/Time:
2012-01-22 11:11:23.578 +1300
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Sleep/Wake UUID: A5D90A7D-4923-4807-925C-7572A3FDC25F
Interval Since Last Report:
225 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:
1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 3 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
Anonymous UUID:
9111BA25-4BC3-453F-8171-C05AFE66124B
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000058723f2f
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Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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2 - corruption of the iPhoto library - If it is not #1 then Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your database
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