Cant view my pics in iPhoto 11

i just tryed to imprort all my photos to iphoto 11 but they are all blacked out. I just installed it and tryed to bring my pics over from my hard drive, the photos were in an old vertion of iphoto 08. When i tryed to open the photos iphoto 11 started to reformat them i think. they are all ther but just blacked out. Please help my wife is going to kill me

Exactly what did you do? THere is no "Importing" involved in moving to a new version of iPhoto - since you do not tell us what you have or waht you did here is the general procedure for moving iPhoto to a new machine
Connect the two Macs together (network, firewire target mode, etc) or use an external hard drive formed Mac OS extended (journaled) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old Mac to the pictures folder of the new Mac - launch iPhoto on the new mac and it will open the library and convert it as needed and you will be ready move forward.
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