Pictures gone after upgrade to iPhoto 9.4.2

Dear All. 
After the upgrade to 9.4.2 we have a numer of problems:
1.     All pictures are gone.  iPhoto shows frames with no content. 
2.     I had saved libraries in different places at different times during the last couple of months.  All the libraries ave the same date of the last changes to it: 31.3.2012.  These dates must be different as we have been working with these libraries almost every day.
3.     The one dated 31.3.2012 can be opened.  Besides not showing any pictures (see 1. above) there seem to be two years (2011 and 2012) worth of pictures missing.
Please help, as this is a major desaster.
Thomas.

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 Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places 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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