Lost iPhoto Library and very slow iPhoto

I used to have my library on an external drive and had deleted the library in the pictures subfolder on my ibook. subsequently my external drive is hibernating. however, i appear to have copies on my laptop and am able to import new pictures. however, i can not locate a iPhoto Library or the file names on my photos on my laptop or anything resembling them and my iPhoto runs really slow and drags down the rest of my laptop.
Any idea where i can locate where my photos are stored on my laptop and why my iPhoto is performing so poorly?
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

ok, one more thing to try. By the way, what do you mean by "the external is hybernating"?
The next instructions will help you find where a photo that you see in iPhoto is in the Finder. Once you find that out, tell me the path of the photo.
There is a way to find out where the original photo is that you have in your iPhoto Library. On this page there are iPhoto Applescripts. One of them is "show image file" I tried it and it does work for iPhoto 5. If you click on the image in your library window and then use the applescript it will open up a finder window with the image file, and you can see it's path of where it is.
http://www.apple.com/applescript/iphoto/
Download the scripts from the link
Once downloaded, put the folder "iPhoto Scripts" in ~/Library/Scripts
Now navigate to Applications/Applescript
In that Applescript folder is an icon that says "Install Script menu"
double click that icon to install the Script menu in your menu bar. You might have an item called ScriptMenu.menu instead. follow directions on next link
http://www.appleclub.com.hk/applescript/script_menu/
It will look like a little black scrolled paper.
Or you might have an item named AppleScript Utility.app in the folder. Double click to open it and make sure you have show script menu in menu bar checked.
Now open iPhoto, click on a photo to highlight it
Go to the menu bar and click and hold on the Applescript icon
scroll down to iPhoto Scripts, then scroll to "show image file"
Wait for the Finder top open a finder window showing you where the image is.
OR:
Or you can download Joe's iPhoto Applescripts
He gives instructions on the page for the installation of the scripts.

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