Photos in Library not viewable in iPhoto

I've been having battery problems with my new MacBook Pro that have caused it to crash on a number of occassions. The first time that this happened, I was using iPhoto at the time. When I rebooted the computer, all of my albums had disappeared in iPhoto, although the files still exist in the iPhoto Library in Finder. When I try to open these files using iPhoto, a message appears saying that the file is unreadable, it is unable to be imported as it is already in the iPhoto Library folder (which I already knew!).
Does anyone know how I can resolve this problem? Thanks.
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Hi ecaharrison,
It seems that a data file got corrupt on one of your crashes.
See if following the next instructions can get you back on track.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and highlight it in the window, then click the "open" button.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck!

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