My iphoto icon has a ? over it and will not open.  Any thoughts?

Any thoughts? Library seems to be missing too. 

Go to the Applicaitons folder and if the iPhoto application is there drag it to the dock again.  Remove the previous icon. If there is no iPhoto application in the Applications folder do a search for iPhoto.app to see if it's in a subfolder or  elsewhere.  If it is move it back to the Application folder.
If there is no iPhoto application on the hard drive then you'll have to reinstall iPhoto from the source it came on originally, i.e  the disks that came with your Mac or an iLife disk that you purchased. 
If you purhased iPhoto from the App Store you'll need to download it from there again.  However, your profile indeicates Snow Leopard and that is insufficient to run the latest iPhoto from the App Store (Mt. Lion requried).
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