Migrating iPhoto Library results in just one iPhoto Event...?

Full story as quickly as possible: I upgraded to Mountain Lion, but that didn't go well. Two trips to the Apple Genius bar and we decided that we had to reinstall the operating system which would render the computer effectively brand new. I was also told not to save everything to time machine, because the problems I was having were likely part of the way the entire computer was running. Therefore I should save document, photos, music separately and then drag them back onto the "new" computer one at a time.
So computer is effectively erased and I had saved my iPhoto Library, but now when I drag it back from the external hard drive to the "new" computer, all photos are in one event, rather than the hundreds of events I had before. To organize these photos all again would take a few hundred hours more than I care to do.
I can go back into Time Machine and find other iPhoto libraries that are nearly the same with all my Events separately. How can I drag them into the current computer set up?
Thanks kindly.

Sorry it took so long for me to respond - sometimes apple notifies me by e-mail that there has been a response, sometimes it doesn't.
I think your answer helped me. I see that when I synched the photos (several weeks ago now), I selected "choose folder" in the drop-down window - the reason being that I use 2 different libraries for iPhoto and wanted to make sure it synched with my main library on the external HD rather than the default iPhoto library. But when I selected "iPhoto" in the drop-down menu instead, the iPod started synching with 1356 phots, which is the same number as appears in iPhoto when I open the library I want to synch with.

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