Photos come up blank in iPhoto 08

Hi guys,
A couple days ago I updated my macbook from Leopard to Snow Leopard 10.6.3. I copied my old iPhoto library to my new Time Capsule and once I reinstalled iPhoto 08 I pasted the library back. The transfer (10GB) was painfully slow - it took over 12 hours (I don't know if that is relevant, but hey).
So I opened iPhoto and selected my library to use and once it loaded all my old photos, half of the event thumbnails were blank. Quite a few of the photos in the events folders were blank as well. I did a rebuild that I saw on a support page, and it got some back but not all. Now when I open photos it comes up with a black circle and a "!" image.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance...

1. Copy and paste is a very good way of moving chunks of text around, however, it's not really good for moving a Library containing many thousands of files. Drag and Drop is rather more reliable.
it comes up with a black circle and a "!" image.
2. The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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