Unable to load photos from iPhoto library

I have around 8400 photos in my iPhoto library. I was having difficulty importing photos. It would freeze during import. Also was acting very sluggish. I reinstalled iPhoto 4.0.3 from a dvd. I also drug to the iPhoto library to my desktop so when iPhoto opened I had it creat a new library and import worked fine and the application worked fine. I did open up the original iPhoto library in finder and moved a folder out of library. Now the new library works fine but I am unable to load the photos from the original library with 8400 photos. I drug the folder I removed back into the original library. Since I have read that you are not make any changes to the library outside of iPhoto especially in finder. Any way to have access back to the photos in the original library in iPhoto.

There's also a little app callled "iPhoto Buddy".
It came with a cover disk on Macworld mag. but might be available at places like tucows or version tracker .com.
It's magic!
Otherwise, change an iPhoto library name (one character will do). When you next launch it, it will ask you to search, create new, or (I forget the other). Then you can locate your old lib. and launch that. But try to find iphoto budy first.
finallly, DON'T EVER mess with the iphoto folders!

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