Can I go back to my iLife '08 version of iPhoto?

I have Mac 10.6.8. My hard drive crashed, but since I had everything backed up using Time Machine, I feared not. Apple replaced the hard drive. My husband did not use migration assistant to set up the new hard drive since he reasoned that it was corrupted and would mess up the new one. He set up new user accounts. Ever since then, I have not been able to get iPhoto to run. It just freezes. I even upgraded to iPhoto 9.2.2 and still nothing works. It tells I must upgrade and then when I try to do that, the program crashes. I took off the iPhoto files as recommended by one of the super users and re-installed iPhoto 9.2 from the new iLife '11 disk from Apple. It still doesn't work. I took all the iPhoto stuff out of the folder var/db/receipts and reinstalled iPhoto from iLife '08 thinking that would at least let me open the library. No such luck. I am wondering if I should give up on iPhoto.

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

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