Help. I can't restore my photo library

I recently had a residential burglary in which my iMac was stolen. It's since been retrieved, but the thief erased every single photo in my library. However, I did have an external hard drive with the library saved on it. While i was without the iMac, I connected the external hard drive to my Macbook, which has iPhoto 6 on it. Now when I try to put my library back into the Pictures folder on the iMac, which has iPhoto 4 on it, I get a message saying it can't be opened with that version. Is there any way around purchasing a new version of iPhoto? If I do have to get a new version, I'll have to find iLife 06, as I don't want iPhoto 8 on this older iMac.
thanks

Lori
No, there is no way to open a v6 library with v4, I'm afraid. You'll find v6 on amazon right now - search on iLife 06.
Regards
TD

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