Cleaning up iPhoto folders after CrashPlan restore

Came home Friday to find one of my Seagate HDD in my Mac Pro failed.  This volume held my iPhoto Library.  I am currently using CrashPlan to restore the volume.  While CrashPlan gives you the latest of each file I am getting files from iPhoto 10, 9, 8, 7, etc.  Anyway to remove all of the old depricated files/folders and keep just the ones required for iPhoto 11?  I would even consider exporting photos and re-importing them if there was a way to maintain the meta-data.
Thanks for any suggestion.
Jim

If you can not recover the iPhoto library intact as a single package then you will have to start over using teh originals photos and importing into a new iPhoto library
It is no possible to recreate an iPhoto library - it must be kept intact as a single entity
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