Losing apparently my iphoto library

Yesterday I updated my mac OS with Tiger (from 10.3.9). Today I imported new photos from my camera and tried to send emails with these photos. Everything looked fine.
But now when I open iphoto I have nothing at all in my library, it looks like I lost all my pictures.
When I used spotlight, I found my iphoto library in the images file, so it is not so much lost. But it doesn't appear through iphoto.
What do I have to do ?

Hey I have the same problem. What did you do to resolve?? I keep getting a message saying
"The photo library was created with an unreleased version of iPhoto.
Please quit and upgrade this library by opening it in iPhoto 2 or iPhoto 4. Quit."
Did you get the same??

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