Album backup and importing after formatting

I am planning on reformatting my computer in the near future, but I want to backup my photos first. If I burn photo albums to a DVD using iPhoto, will I be able to import those same albums (and the photos in these albums) after reinstalling? Or will I lose all of my albums but merely retain my photos in some random order? I am using OS 10.3.9 and iPhoto 4, by the way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Actually, since you said you were wanting to move your photo collection off of your startup partition, the instructions suggest by OT will only get you part way there. Moving your collection to a different drive partition will copy your iPhoto Library folder rather than move it. Before restarting iPhoto, you'll have to include the additional step of renaming your original iPhoto Library folder (or drag it to the desktop) so iPhoto doesn't find it when it starts. After you've checked with iPhoto to make sure the move occurred without incident, you can delete your original iPhoto Library folder from your startup disk/partition.

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