WRONG iPhoto library, can't correct

I upgraded my harddrive to a larger size, but before I did, I cloned it and rebooted to the new drive. However, Aperture still sees my iPhoto masters on the old drive (I renamed the old drive from MyDrive to MyDrive2, but Aperture still sees iPhoto in Users>Pictures as being in drive 2, the old drive). I see no way of updating or changing the path to the new drive. When I select Relocate masters and choose the new path to the new boot drive, it doesn't relocate the masters.
However, when browsing my iPhoto library via Aperture 2.1.1 , it is seeing new items added to the current iPhoto library in the new drive.
Anyone have away of resolving this confusion? Suggestions??
Thanks
Jeff

I see part of the problem of this attempt to relocate the masters and I'm wondering if it is due to changes in the way iPhoto from 2006 has changed to the current layout. I see that Aperture is looking for the masters in a Folder named either Originals or Modified:
MyDrive2/Users/Me/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Modified/2006/Roll 256/IMG_0168.JPG
But when I look in the iPhoto libraries, I do not see any MODIFIED or ORIGINAL folders on any drive....
Is this structural change responsible for the loss of a path and how do you fix and find the new ones in albums vs originals. You can see these folders (Original and Modified) when using the Finder, but you cannot see them using the Aperture interface, so I cannot reconnect them...
Weird and confusing...

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