Edit/Organize Library on One Computer from Another

Hi, I'm wondering if it would be possible to edit & organize an iPhoto library on another computer from iPhoto on a laptop? The two computers are networked.
I'm trying to help a friend organize and sift through a pretty messy iPhoto (v.5) library on his old G4 iMac. Unfortunately this computer is VERY slow and chokes on his library a bit (2000-3000 photos). It's painful to work on.
He has a new Intel MacBook, though, which has iPhoto 6.
- Can he load up his library from the iMac over the network, and make the edits, delete the extra photos, etc.?
- Since his old computer has iPhoto 5, and the new one is iPhoto 6, would just opening and editing the library make it unusable in iPhoto 5?
Thanks a lot. For convenience sake, he is stuck leaving the main iPhoto library on the home iMac. I've already spoke to him about upgrading the RAM and possibly upgrading to iPhoto 6 to help speed things up so they are usable. He's not sure if he can afford it now, so we need to 'lighten' his library as much as possible.
G5 Dual 2Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4)   1.5GB RAM

YoKenny
Yes he can, and it's not difficult to do. BUT - and it's a big one - he will have to have the same version of iPhoto on both machines. The architecture of V6 is different from V5 and so the earlier version will not read the later one. Opening the V5 library with V6 will make it unreadable to the early version.
Regards
TD

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