Photos won't show up in iPhoto

My hard drive recently failed and needed to be replaced. After having Apple replace my hard drive, I updated to the new operating system Lion as well as iLife 11. Though I lost everything on my hard drive all of my photos had been backed up onto an external drive. When i retrieved the back up the photos came and were back in iPhoto but with one catch... I can't completely see them. All I get is a black screen with a triangle. Though I thought the photos were completely gone, you can see in on of the photos that the photos are there because they are in the scroll bar at the bottom. Why can't I get to them??? Please help.

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

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