Any Tips? Going to install tonight.

UPS site says my iLife 6 has been delivered so I know what I'm doing tonight.
Last night I copied (for backup) my entire Picture library/folder to my external drive (did the same with my iTunes library). I have about 14,000 photos so I'm very nervous about this upgrade (would be with 1000 too though) -- we're all digital photos these days and that's 4 years worth of memories.
I wondering if I should dismount the external drive during the upgrade so iPhoto doesn't find them and think it's another library that needs converted?
Any thing else I should do or not do? I have a 6 month old iMac G5.
thanks in advance.

Backup AND I would do a rebuild with V5 in order to get the library in pristine shape (after making the backup). Then delete the first backup and make a new one on the rebuild library. Then repair disk permissions before and after the installation. Then manually set the permissions on the iPhoto Library folder as follows:
Setting Permissions for iPhoto Library Folder
1 - Select the iPhoto Library folder and type Command-I.
2 - When the Info window comes up go to the Ownership and Permissions section and make sure You have Read & Write permission and that the Owner and Group have Read & Write also. Others - Read Only.
3 - Then click on the "Apply to enclosed items..." button.
I had trouble with one library and that fixed it. Then open the iApps in the following order: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD. With earlier versions this helped each application see the media files from the other apps.
There has been reports that with the new iPhoto library organization iDVD loses it's links to the file. If you have an iDVD project going on, keep your original library folder for it to work on and use iPhoto 6 on the backup folder.

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