The pictures are there, but can't find the library

My primary HD for photos is external, and an iphoto library is there. Took my laptop out of town and loaded photos on it. It created a new library. I cannot figure out, however, where this puppy is stored. It is not in the usr/pictures folder, and neither Finder nor Spotlight turn up albumdata.xml, or library6 etc files. There is no iphoto folder, or original folder found by either spotlight or finder.
iphoto loads fine and all the new photos are there, imovie finds the photos, iweb finds the photos. I, however, can't find the 1.3 Gig of photos so that I can merge the libraries.
I have tried the apple-option start up and rebuilt the library. I have repaired the permissions on the HD. I loaded a number of new photos this morning, and then searched on Finder to see where the file was modified. No luck and I am out of ideas.
Yes I have exported to a temporary folder on the external drive, but I don't want to lose 1.3 gigs of HD space having duplicate pictures. If I re-direct the library to the external drive, without knowing where the new library is, I won't be able to delete the duplicate library. I don't know how to turn on a view for hidden folders, if that is the issue. There is only one user account on this computer, so that is not an issue.
Any thoughts out there? Thanks.
MBP, 1G ram, 80 gig internal HD, 250 gig external Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MBP, 1G ram 2.16 Ghz Core Duo, 80 gig internal, 250 gig external Mac OS X (10.4.8)

gruffgoat
Select a photo in the iPhoto window and right click (or control-click) and select show file.
A Finder window will open with the file selected. If you switch to Column view you'll be able to see where the file is located easily.
Regards
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