Export all photos

Hello.
I'm have a few problems exporting my entire iphoto database. I am setting up Lightroom to be my organizer of choice and am trying to get all my photos into LR3. I have over 16,000 photos in iPhoto but have probably 1,000 photos where the originals cannot be found and I get an alert window when trying to export. (Some time ago, I moved these files and renamed them in Bridge.)
I selected the entire library and said export, however I have to select every one of the "alert" windows and tell it to cancel (~1000 times ... and I've done this twice) before I can even begin my export. The first time I was able to see the export to path, the location could not be created. The second time iPhoto finally started exporting and crashed at about 1000 photos.
I also tried to use a Phil's Missing photo script to clean out the "alert"/original file issue but didn't have much luck or it didn't fix my "alert" messages at all.
I would like to get all of my pictures out from iPhoto as painlessly as possible. I have keyworded some of them, but at this point, don't care if my keywords are lost.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

iPhoto can't export files that it can't find, and you've moved and/or renamed them.
If you're leaving iPhoto entirely, then the easiest thing is to simply recover the files from the Library:
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a Folder called 'Originals'.
Your Photos are inside.
Regards
TD

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