Photos not viewable

I have an iMac and iPhoto. I was playing around, and somehow navigated to my Pictures folder and noticed that some of my pictures were stored under folders titled rollxxx (where xxx was a number). All the pictures I moved over from another computer were in a format of mm-dd-yyyy t:tt. So, being a new user, I decided to rename the folders titled rollxxx to the date format above. Bad move. Now, when I get into iPhoto, and try to display the photos that were in the folders that I renamed, I see no photo, just a exclamation point. I see them as small icons at the top of iPhoto, but when I click on one, the big view shows the exclamation point.
Is there a way to see the photos again? Is there a way to have iPhoto scan the computer for all photos, and if so, will this get them back?
Please help.

ten12093
It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss
Unless you can rename things the way they were, you have no choice except to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same film rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, books, calendars etc.
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual rolls to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
FYI the Roll Based structure is from the latest version of iPhoto, the date based version is from an earlier one.
Regards
TD

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