IPhoto 5 can't find my pictures after installing a new hard drive.

I had a corrupted hard drive which I was able to get going again with Disk Warrior. I backed up my i Photo Library on external storage and then installed the new drive and reinstalled OS 10.4.10 on my old G4. I then installed iLife 05 and tried to open iPhoto. I got an error message stating: "You can't open your current iPhoto library using this version of iPhoto".
After I read the iLife 05 missing manual I found out that you shouldn't save iPhoto files this way. I can't imagine having to burn DVD's in order to save picture files. What ever happened to "it is intuitively obvious on the Mac".
Is there any way for me to recover these picture files? I downloaded an iPhoto library manager but that was no help. Is this file recovery problem easier with iLife 08? I am getting a new iMac later this week with iLife 08 available with it..............donn

Problem solved
I moved all of the iPhoto files into trash and then restarted the machine and reinstalled iPhoto 5. I used my oldest iphoto library file and everything worked. I was a little surprised that the install program was not more selective in picking up a library file.
Everything is working fine now. Thanks for your help....donn

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