My album structure got lost

I bought an 60 GB iPod last June and tried to load my 5000 pictures, organized as albums, onto it. It didn't work. The programme transferred all the photos but not the album structure. I spent 3 hours on the phone with several helpful Apple Service employees. We couldn't solve the problem but in the course of these 3 hours I had, on the advice of the Apple people, made so many manipulations that I ended up with having lost my album structure. What I don't understand is this: There is still a file AlbumData.xml in the iPhoto Library, but when I open iPhoto the albums don't appear. It's just a big mess of 5000 pictures (I'm hardly able to scroll now). Is there a way to get the album structrue back, or rather: to get the 5000 photos back into the albums? Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated - I just can't bring myself to spending a week or more selecting and organizing my 5000 photos into my 40+ albums again. Thanks everyone.

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the Albumdata.xml file is created by iPhoto for other applications to use to find the album info. If all your images are in Albums, you can try a program called iPhoto Album Extractor. this program reads the Albumdata.xml file and gathers the images from each album and exports them to a folder with the albums name. You would then Import these albums into a new iPhoto Library. the problem with this is, you might end up with duplicates of images that were in more than one album. I also don't know of how this program will work with iPhoto 6. It worked fine with iPhoto 5 I know.
This might not even be something you want to do because the keywords, comments, books, slideshows would be lost because you would be starting over. You also might not want to do it because your roll structure would be lost as now the images are in folders pertaining to the albums they were in.
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