My folders are messed up

When browsing through Finder I noticed that the jpeg/photos seemed to be scattered in folders that didn't make sense. In an attempt to tidy relevant photos to relevant folders (unaware of the dating system and this "Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder") something weird has happened.
All the photos disappered from the library. Not Good
I've managed to import some of photos back to the library from Finder by choosing to open the jpeg in iphoto. But some of them won't open in iphoto - it says "the following files could not be imported. They are an unrecognised file type or the file may not contain valid data" but they are all jpegs?
There seems to be no consistency, some are just 'files' in finder, others are actual pictures. Plus I now have folders labelled 2001, 2002 etc but I only bought the ibook this year and the earliset photos I imported were taken september 2004 and imported in 2005

Hi Seoirse,
Ooops, guess you found out about these....
Two Apple kbs for you to read
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
The best thing to do now is to just drag that iPhoto Library folder to the desktop.
launch iPhoto and choose to create a new library when prompted.
Go to File/add to Library in the menubar
Navigate to the iPhoto library on the desktop and choose it to import.
Normally, if you didn't move anything around you would get nicely organized dated rolls of your images imported.
since you did some moving around, the import might not be as nice, but will still give you your images.
Just for your info in the Future....
This is a view of how the iPhoto Library looks in the Finder.
It is organized by Year folders. Inside the Year folders are Month folders. Inside the Month folders are the days of the Month. Inside the day folders are the photos you took on that day. If you imported video clips and RAW files on that day they will be in an Originals folder. If you have edited any photo imported on that day, the original will be in that folder also.

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