Unreleased Version of iPhoto Notation

I tried to move some pictures from my wife's iMac (Intel) by exporting (copying) the pictures to my iPod and then importing (copying) the pictures from my iPod to my PowerBook. When I went to open iPhoto application, I got the following message:
The photo library was created with an unreleased version of iPhoto.
Please quit and upgrade this library to open it in iPhoto 2 or iPhoto4.
Quit
When I clicked "Quit", iPhoto closes. I tried to move the imported pictures to the trash but this did not change the message and iPhoto closing.
Then I tried to install from iLife '05 iPhoto '05 but got the same results and then when I tried to reload iPhoto '04 from the dvd, iLife did not install iPhoto '04. My pictures are still on my hard drive but I can't open and use iPhoto.
How do I get iPhoto to work?
PBG4   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   iPhoto 5.0.4
PBG4   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   iPhoto 5.0.4

What exactly do you mean by "exporting (copying)"? Did you by any chance copy files directly in and out of your iPhoto library folders? That is never a good thing to do.
Did you try rebuilding your library? You might want to try the iPhoto Library Manager application (use Google to find it) to help you with that.

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