Phantom library won't go away

My iPhoto library is on an external firewire drive; and while in iPhoto, I accidentally pulled the cable slightly, which was enough to disconnect it. As a result, all my thumbnails became empty frames with no associated photos; but all my albums were still shown. When I quit and restarted iPhoto, the albums were still there with empty thumbnails. It did not matter whether my firewire drive was attached or not. I did a SpotLight search for an iPhoto Library folder on my internal hard drive to delete, but could not find one. All my iPhoto files are still accessible on my external drive, but I can't get iPhoto to load them. There is some phantom library that has all my albums and empty thumbnails with the right names and sizes, but I don't know where it is.

Beverly Maneatis in a thread on different subject provided the answer. She should get some points for this, but I don't know how to give her credit. Sorry.

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