Restoring Library with Backup

Hi,
I'm afraid this is an old and recurrent theme, but having had a good read of lots of older posts I just can't get this fixed.
I did an Erase and Install and am now running 10.4.6. I used Backup to save all my home folders including about 8GB of photos in iPhoto. I have restored them to their proper location but can't get iPhoto 6.02 to see them even after trying the option open trick to choose a library.
Here's a screen shot of my library - http://homepage.mac.com/sstringer/.Pictures/Other/iphotolib.jpg
Anything look unusual about it?
When choosing the library should I be selecting the whole 'iPhoto Library'?
Thanks
Steffan
PowerMac 2*2.5 GHz, 2GB RAM, 2*250 GB & PowerBook   Mac OS X (10.4)  

Steff:
Andrew is right, your photos will be in the Originals and Modified folder. Those year folders are carryover from the iPhoto 5 to iPhoto 6 process and should be void of image files. Move them to the desktop and check them before deleting. Occasionally users have found image files, not thumbnails, in there that didn't get converted for some reason. You can manually salvage them.
If you want to save your keywords you can do so by following Tutorial #1 before you import the contents of the Originals and Modified folders into your new library.

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