Photos disappear from library; still on hard drive.

This is the second time I've experienced this problem. The first time followed an automatic update of iphoto. This time, the problem occurred when I downloaded photos from a new camera.
I'm not panicking because I know the photos are still there on the hard drive. Last time I called Apple Support and they gave me a route to find all the photo libraries. But I can't remember the steps they suggested, and I haven't been able to find the other libraries via Spotlight; several iphoto libraries are named, but all seem to contain only my most recent photos (from the new camera) only.
Again, the jpeg images still exist on my hard drive and I can find them in the All Images section. It would be nice not to have to import all of them back to the library one by one! Last time, once we located the correct library, we simply backed up the new photos, and switched to the old library, adding the new photos afterwards (since there were fewer of them.)
Thank in advance for any suggestions!

The only way to open other Libraries with iPhoto 08:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
Regards
TD

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