Go back from iPhoto '08 to iPhoto '06

Hi,
I upgraded to iPhoto '08 on my good old PowerBook G4, but I'm rather disappointed with the upgrade because iPhoto is extremely slow.
So I would like to go back to iPhoto '06.
I followed the instructions on the forum to revert to the previous version, but in all explanations about how to do this, you loose all your metadata from your library, i.e. comments, ratings, keywords, ...
Is there a way, any way, to convert my library back from 08 to 06?
It contains loads of metadata for about 2500 pictures, so recreating all this will be really painful.
Of course I didn't make a backup first of my library. Lesson learned there, but I never felt the need to downgrade with previous iLife versions. In fact, I'm even more disappointed about that, than the fact that I tend to loose my nicely organised library.
Thanks for any advice.

To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network, Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.
Regards
TD

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