Photos have disappeared -- how can I find them?

Because of problems I had been having with iPhoto being unable to delete or add more items, yesterday I had an additional hard drive added to my iMac, thinking it was a lack of memory problem. Unfortunately this didn't help at all despite moving all the photo and movie items over to this new hard drive. I thought there may have been two or more copies of iPhoto on the computer. I had 1300 photos in the library.
I followed the advice in earlier posts re this problem (items not showing up in library) and copied the old iPhoto library to the desktop and created a new library and tried to transfer the original files to it. Only half of them appeared.
Those missing are the most recently added and of course are the ones I really need. They are not in any library folders that I can find. Have they gone forever, or might they be hiding somewhere? Your help very much appreciated as I need these photos to put up on our business website.
Thanks in advance to anyone who responds to this plea for help.
iMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Casuarina,
I have no idea how you got different libraries. the only way to have more than one library is to create one yourself, and you should certainly remember if you created one. If you ever rebuilt the library in an older version 2 iPhoto, then you would of had on old iPhoto Library, and the new rebuilt iPhoto Library_1. You can delete the older one because the new rebuilt one has all the images.
Import all the images into your current library, then delete the old libraries you imported from. Keep that library in the Pictures folder. I am not sure how iPhoto likes PICT files, so it is advisable to convert those to jpeg before you import them into your new library.
Lori

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