Can't upgrade iPhoto '09 library to '11

Installed iLife 11 and started iPhoto. When I start it, the app tells me I need to upgrade my iLife '09 library. I click Upgrade, and it says it is "unable to open this library" and quits.
I tried deleting the .plist file; also tried opening iPhoto with Command and Option keys held down and repairing/rebuilding permissions; no dice on any of it.
Any ideas?

I was having the same problem. After installing iLife '11 I opened the new iPhoto '11 and I got the standard "this library needs to be upgraded" message. I, naturally, clicked upgrade. After the second progress bar appeared and started to progress it stalled. The spinning wheel in the iPhoto window did the same, then iPhoto promptly crashed.
The solution that I came up with was starting my computer in target disk mode to connect to another mac with iLife '09. First, I rebuilt the iphoto library and had it repair permissions to see if those were the problems. You can do that by holding command-option while opening iPhoto and you get a few options for rebuilding/checking different parts of the iPhoto library.
That didn't seem to make a difference when I tried upgrading the library again in iPhoto '11, but it could have made a difference further down the line.
So, I started in target disk mode again and opened my library with the iPhoto '09 again, but this time I went through and deleted all of the videos I had in my iPhoto library. I manually copied and pasted them into a separate folder on my computer before emptying the trash.
When I restarted and opened iPhoto '11 after getting rid of my movies the library upgrade went just fine. Now, I don't know if the problem was the fact that I had movies or the fact that the movies were AVIs. I think it was the fact that they were AVI files because I saw something about AVI come up in the crash reporter when the library updates caused iphoto to crash.
This may not be the exact problem that all of you have been experiencing, but I hope this helps someone.
jdsams
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