Photo's Gone

I have a Lacie back up hard drive that contains my iPhoto collection. Several weeks ago I lost all my pictures on my iMac in iPhoto. Since then I have been taking pictures daily and adding them to my iPhoto which was empty.
Yesterday I opened the pictures on my Lacie to see what I had backed up. I did nothing of any kind to suggest to the Lacie hard drive or to my iMac that I wanted all the pictures back into iPhoto on my desktop. I just opened up iPhoto when I was in my Lacie hard drive.
Today I see all the pictures that were on the back up hard drive now in my iPhoto once again on my iMac, but now I do not have all my newest pictures that I have been adding to iPhoto .... it's like all the backed up picture overwrite my newest ones ?
Can I find all the recent ones or are they gone now forever for some reason .... why would all the pictures on the backup hard drive wipe out all the newest ones , why would they not just be added along side them ?
GRRRRRRRR
Thanks

(*) Ok   I opened iphoto thru Leopard - Pictures - iPhoto and sure enough all my newer photographs are there as you said they would be THANKS !
Please explain a couple of things now ...
(**) Why is it that when I opened up iphoto from my dock before after clicking around in my Lacie - all the old backed up photos were shown each time I opened iPhoto from the dock.
Now ( after *)   when I open up iPhoto from my dock it is only the newer pictures shown ?
So I never lost anything at all, but now I have the pictures I wanted in my home folder ....
But now I have even newer pictures that I added in the last couple of days since all this began that were added to iPhoto using the dock icon to (** )
So to try and understand ...
I had old pictures on my Lacie that I clicked on - by doing that - the external pictures folder put themselves on my Dock / iPhoto - thus making me think al my newer pictures were gone - which now I find they are not. But since then I have been adding pictures to external folder that was on my Dock /iPhoto icon I have The Newest pictures on that.
How do I now get all my oldest and Very Newest on my External and my newer on my Home Folder all into one ?
Thanks so much for all of this .... I know it is confusing to explain thru typing and not talking in person at times.
Eric

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