Lost Albums and Pictures in Library

I recently had a problem with my computer and had to do a
I went to iPhoto where I had my 2,500 photos organized into separate albums and completely organized and all the photos were gone. I dragged the livrary file into iPhot and got back up to 2006?
*I have tried to Add to Library my 2007 photos and it says that the jpeg files that were already in iPhoto won't import with the error message Not the Right File Type.* I am completely confused. Can I fix this? Or do I have to rebuild it all.

My computer wouldn't boot so I had to reinstall the operating system. I guess I left that part out. When i opened iPhoto for the first time nothing was there. I dragged a back up of the iPhoto Library onto iPhoto and only got back part of my Library as well as set-up Albums.
Now when I go to drag the remaining photos that did not show up in iPhoto it says that the photos are not the right format. I hope that I won't lose them. I never touched them and they are jpegs.
Is there a way to reinstall iPhot and get back my Album list and all the photos?

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