Lost photos after iPhoto '06 upgrade

Hello.
I recently installed iLife '06 and thought I'd try out the new calendar feature. After using it for about 20 minutes, iPhoto bombed.
I restarted and found the calendar I was working on was gone. No big deal. But then I noticed that my last 12 months folder was completely empty and my library was missing an enormous amount of photos. I have been able to recover some from "My Pictures" but not all.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Lisa

Lee,
Keep the duplicate library o the desktop.
Drag the messed up library to the trash.
follow the next instructions;
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
-double click the iPhoto Library folder on the desktop to open it
-the two main folders you will need to import are the Original folder and the Modified folder (only if you want to import the edited images).
-the Originals folder has all your originals photos unedited. the Modified folder has all images that you have edited, rotated, cropped, etc.
-Drag these two folders to the desktop
-If you want to save the edited image, find it in the roll in the Modified folder and drag it into the roll of the same name in the Originals folder. It will replace the originals and now will be the original.
-If you don't care to save any edited images, then don't import the Modified folder into iPhoto or don't bother replacing the edited image with the original image like I just described.
-If you import the Originals folder into iPhoto you will have all your originals in their named rolls.
-If you import the Originals and Modified folders into iPhoto, you will have all of the edited and originals imported. The roll with the same name as the other will have a _1 appended to it's name (in the finder)
-the roll from the originals will be next to the same roll from the Modified folder within iPhoto. You can then delete any of the images from there if you want.
I know this might sound confusing but it really isn't.
Get back if any of this sounds like something you might want to do.

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