Loading Photos Indefinitely

I am using iPhoto 4.0.3. I guess I have about 4,000 photos loaded in. Today when I started iPhoto, it just keeps saying "Loading Photos," but never loads photos and never gives me an error message. The little black circle thing just keeps spinning. Here are things I have tried so far that did not make any change to this situation:
Deleted iPhoto preference file
Restarted the computer
Repaired permissions
Any thoughts? I'd like to get my pictures back. I do have a backup - would copying the backup files into the main folder help?

I have 134 GB out of 250. I upgraded the hard drive this past February with a brand new one.
It turns out that the library that iPhoto opened was the one that it rebuilt when I tried to rebuild it yesterday. It didn't open immediately after I rebuilt it, but the next day it did. The original iPhoto library still won't open, but I am not too concerned about it since the rebuilt one is working just fine now.

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