Library re-imported from troubled backup doing odd things

So i had a bit of a crisis over the past few days, osx partition corrupted, my backup drive was screwed up, so i did some juggling and managed to back up as much as i could...
anyway, so now im on a fresh installation of osx and installed iphoto...i was able to save the iphotodata folder and all of my original photo folders that iphoto read from, but the iphoto library was corrupted and uncopyable...
i have about 10,000some photos that i have carefully organized into about 20 different albums, and losing the organization would be a huge pain...
i option+started iphoto and picked the iphotodata folder, and it has all my albums and everything there, but the odd thing is when i scroll, all the photo thumbnails are there, but when i stop scrolling they all vanish and become the dotted empty squares.
i always told iphoto not to duplicate the photos into its library to save space and go off the original folders, but all the folders are in the identical relative places to the iphotodata folder...why isnt it able to find them?
i've also tried cmd+option rebuilding the libraries, but it didnt do anything
it'll be a huge pain if i have to manually reorganize everything, does anyone have any ideas?

It sounds like the database is damaged and can't be repaired. Not sure what you mean by the iPhotodata folder but if you mean the folder named Data that's inside the library then all that contains are the thumbnail files for the library. They are not needed as the thumbnails are recreated when you import the photos.
You'll have to start over with a new library. If you create a new library and import just the Originals folder from your problem library you will get all of your photos in the same Events that they were in in the old library.

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