Pictures in iPhoto Missing

I had my MacBook Pro reset, before I had it reset I saved all of my pictures to my iPhoto and deleted the pictures off of my iPhone. When I got my computer back all of the pictures that were on my computer were gone. How do I get them back?

When I searched for the Library I found
that all the pictures in it were grayed out and
cannot be accessed.
A big jump here... I assume you "searched" using the "Find Library" dialog, navigated in the dialog to the folder named "iPhoto Library" (unless you've moved and/or renamed it) in your Pictures folder, selected it, then iPhoto opened without any warning dialogs, all before you saw that all pictures were "grayed out".
Do any thumbnails appear? Does the albums pane show the albums you had previously assembled? Has anything "unusual" happened with your system between when iPhoto last functioned normally, and now?

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Brenda,
You're quite welcome.
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After you find and rename or delete the other libraries, you will be ready to create a new library. (You might not want to delete those other folders yet - in case some photos are missing from your main library. But if you are sure that nothing in them is original, go ahead and Trash them to free up the space.)
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