Want to direct iphoto back to original data

I have my photo library on an external hard drive. Photos from camera were downloaded when external had been unplugged. iphoto created a new folder with the same name as the original and loaded the new downloaded pics into it. When opening iphoto, i get the new pics with over 8000 ghost pics, frames with titles but no pics. I found new folder, copied pics and threw folder away, but am afraid to empty trash. I need to know if I can somehow redirect the app. to go to the old folder where all the pics are. Any suggestions? I have had to rebuild in the past and did not get any movies as they all transfered as pics. Am using 5.0.4

Its been a long time since iPhoto5 - for later versions(and I think 5) you depress the option (alt) key and launch iPhoto to select the location of the library - when in iPhoto you can see exactly where your photos are by right clicking (control clicking) and a photo in the iPhoto library window and selecting the show file command
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Do Not use Shootshifter on photos already in the iPhoto Library. This will rename the files and that will damage your Library. Every file renamed will be lost to iPhoto.
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