Iweb not finding photos after move to external hard drive...

so I moved all my photos by copying the iphoto library to a external hard drive, deleting the old library, and telling iphoto to look to the external to find the photos and iphoto works fine.
I launched iweb, tried to go into media, and it said please launch iphoto 2 or later to show photos...I did so and nothing.
How do I point iweb in the right direction in order to work with my photos on the external hard drive?
Thanks so much,
Steve

Might be a job for symbolic links!
I thought there used to be a GUI way to create symbolic links, but maybe there never was.
Anyway, here's a "little" background.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643
And, if you're comfortable in the terminal, what you want to do is create a Pictures symbolic link that points to the one on your external drive (not sure what problem this might cause iPhoto... may want to point it to the symbolic link as well).
Something along the lines of
cd /Users/username/Pictures/
then
ln -s /Volumes/name-of-external/iPhoto\ Library iPhoto\ Library
or something like that.

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