Adding iPhoto'04 library to iPhoto'11 that already has a library

I have been running iPhoto'09 on my MBP for about 1.5 years and just installed iPhoto'11 and all appears to be fine with the 1500 or so pictures in the current iPhoto Library for iPhoto'11. I have about 4,000 pictures on an 6 year old G4 with iPhoto'04 that I want to put on the MBP.
Based on reading other posts I am in the process of copying the "iPhoto Library" folder from iPhoto'04 to another drive (it is currently being copied to a 8 GB USB drive as I type this message). Before this is copied from the USB drive into the Pictures folder on the MBP, should it be renamed to something different than "iPhoto Library" (ie. iPhoto 04 Library), since there is already an active "iPhoto Library" file (a Package File) in the Pictures folder? Once I have the iPhoto 04 Library file copied to the Pictures folder on the MPB, is the next step to launch iPhoto'11 with the option key pressed and select the iPhoto 04 Library? If I followed other discussions, this will then convert the iPhoto 04 Library to iPhoto'11 format.
After this is seems like iPhoto Library Manager would be a good way to work with the two libraries in order to arrange the pictures and albums as I like.
Thanks for any feedback or suggestions on the above process.

Hello TD -I solved the problem late last night before I saw your reply about using iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild the library in question. Here is what I did. Note that I have been using iPhoto version 9.1.1 all along, so it was not an issue of library updates losing data that was initially reported by many users of the original 9.0 version.
1. The library I had been using with iPhoto'09 was successfully updated when I initially upgraded to iPhoto'11, so all was fine with that. The problem was that iPhoto'11 was not able to update a library brought over from iPhoto'04 on my old G4 tower.
2. After reading that some users were going back to iPhoto'09, I thought I might try that as a way to read the iPhoto'04 library. Deleted iPhoto'11 and associated package receipts from my MBP, but left the new iPhoto'11 library in the Pictures folder. Installed iPhoto'09 from the iLife'09 disk.
3. Stared iLife'09 with the option key pressed and selected the iPhoto'04 library. Happy days - it opened the iPhoto'04 Library just fine and updated all the information (albums, titles, etc.) as it should. The library icon in the Picture folder was no longer an actual folder (as it was with iPhoto 4), but was now the iPhoto icon.
4. Used the iLife'11 disk to update iLife'09 back to iLife'11 on the MBP. After this was completed I used Software Update to get version 9.1.1 of the software loaded before using the program. Started version 9.1.1 with the option key and selected the iPhoto'04 library that had been updated with iPhoto'09 and it was correctly updated to iPhoto'11 format with all the information intact.
5. Problem resolved after getting helpful suggestions throughout the forum. While this process did not answer the problem about iLife'11 not being able to open the old iPhoto'04 library, the final solution worked just fine. I'll also be buying iPhoto Library Manger to help keep things in order, since I now have a library for the iPhoto'09 data that was updated and the second library for the iPhoto'04 library that was updated (there is also a 3rd library I'll bring in from my wife's MacBook).
TD - thanks for you time and for helping to narrow down the possible issues for this problem.

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