Restored iphotos from Backup not showing up in iphoto 9

hello all,
following the sad loss of my g4 powerbook drive, i have a new mac. powerbook had an older operating system, not sure which, backed up regularly, and now, using the restore function to bring back my old iphotos, i can search in spotlight under the names of old photo folders and see the images and bring them up in preview, but i cannot get them to show up in iphoto. they are listed as inside the iphoto library, which i cannot get to.
i figure i'm doing something wrong that's pretty simple, as the pics are definitely on here...

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
How you restore from a back up is all decided by how you made the back up. So if you used a particular software utility, check the Help on that app to see how to restore correctly.
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