Photos gone after upgrade to '11

I had a few hundred photos and a couple of videos on my iPhoto '09 library. I then upgraded to iPhoto '11, and all of my photos were gone. I saw a message that said you go to File->Import, so I did, but iPhoto Library was greyed out. I then tryed dragging the iPhoto Library into iPhoto, but it said unreadable file. What do I do?

First just try double clicking on your iPhoto Library in the Pictures folder. If the same thing opens up then quit iPhoto.
Re-open holding down Option and select to create a new library. When you create the library, iPhoto should open up and be blank - as expected. This will let us know if the issue is with your library or with the entire Application.
The next thing is would do is to trash your Caches and iPhoto.plist file, reboot and test again. If this does fix anything then fear not and move on...
Open iPhoto to your original library and then quit again. Then open iPhoto holding Option+Command until the 'rebuild' window comes up.
First, select just the top option and hit Rebuild. Let it do its thing and then test again.
If this does not work bring back the rebuild window and then select the 'rebuild' option only and select to rebuild. Test again.
If it is still missing your images then re-open the rebuild window and try rebuilding with the last 3 options checked off. Test again.
If it is still not displaying your images then bring the rebuild window up again for the last time. Now rebuild using the two options regarding the thumbnails and test. NB - this will take a long time to rebuild.
If after all of the above it is still not working you would need to manually rebuild the library.
This would involve importing all your images into the brand new library that was created in the beginning...
If it gets this far though then let us know and we will tell you how to do that.
You may also want to consider calling AppleCare at this point as they may want to look into the issue deeper with you.
Sincerely
JD

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