Trouble transferring events in upgrade to iphoto 11

Hi:
Please may I ask for some help with iphoto 11? I upgraded a couple of weeks ago and am generally happy with it (the project app is brilliant). Unfortunately I have noticed a problem with upgrading from a previous version of iphoto (I think 09): an event (my daughter's birth) is not showing in the events menu.
She was born in June, and I had created an event just after her birth.
So this morning I was concerned when I couldn't find those photos. After a little panic was able to find all the 136 photos in the 'last 12 months' folder. In fact if I clicked on the arrow in the bottom right hand corner of one of the photos, and selected 'show event', it brought up all the photos with the proper event name.
So both the photos and their association into an event still exist. But I am left with three questions:
1. Why doesn't the event show up in the main events pane, when so many of my other events have come through?
2. How do I get it to show?
3. Might this problem have affected other events, including those from more than a year ago? I was able to find the pictures and event in the 'last 12 months' folder; but I have a lot of photos and events and can't remember if they have all transferred. Am I going to need to go through all of the photos, create new events and move them in one by one?
I have not rebuilt the iphoto library, so could try that as a first fix if that might be a good idea.
-Will

You don't. That was a test, as it says above. We'll try fix the main library:
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 early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
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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