Upgrading iPhoto Library Manager and Lost folders...

I've been using iPhoto Library Manager (ver. 3.4.?) and iPhoto 8 with most photos on an external LaCie drive. I've just upgraded to iPhoto Library Manger ver. 3.5.6. I didn't know that a new version of that program would present an empty library list. I also had a good-old fashioned folder, on the LaCie drive that contained photos. After the upgrading, I cannot find that folder. I think that may have to do with iPhoto Library Manager creating a new library inside that plain-jane folder. Does anyone have experience with this program and how to find lost folders and photos?

Thank you and say "hi" to beautiful Ireland. My family stills farms east of Galway.
Let me explain further. In the last version of iPhoto Library Manager, before I upgraded to a newer version, when opened, it showed in the iPhoto Libraries list many libraries, most on the external drive and one on the HD of the Mac.
When I would select one of the libraries on the external drive (ed), then I would see what each of those libraries contained including several which had not only jpg photos but some with a "folder" containing those jpg photos. I could then open those libraries or even those "folders" and access the photos with iPhoto.
After upgrading iPhoto LM, the libraries list was blank. I began populating it again by selecting "Add Library" and selecting from the list that occurred. Here's where the mystery began. There was a "folder," not a library that came up on that list of photos on the ed. That folder contained hundreds of jpg photos. When I clicked on that folder, iLM said that there was no library in that folder and provided a button to create one. I did that. Since that point, the folder and its contained jpg photos have disappeared but there is "library" on the iPM list window that wasn't there before. When I select it to open in iPhoto, it shows there are no photos.
I hope this may not be as bewildereing to you as to me.

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