How to Combine 2 Different Libraries

About 6 months ago, our Powerbook was starting to fill up with photos and music, so I decided to back up our current iPhoto library to an external drive and on dvd, and then deleted the old library off the computer and started a new one. A couple weeks ago, we decided to just start storing all our photos on an external drive.
How do I combine the original library with all the new photos we've taken since then into one new master library?

I got the iPhoto Library Manager, and the merge function seems like it would be great, but I'm getting error messages:
"An error has occurred while attempting to import the roll "Roll 109". (* -[NSNull length]: selector not recognized [self = 0xa07bb218]) If you would like to continue and try to import the roll "Roll 109" again, click "Continue". If you would like to continue, but skip the roll "Roll 109", click "Skip". If you would like to stop the merge, click "Cancel".
How do I fix this? Thoughts?
And the program seems great, but is there no "drag & drop" way to get the files I need all in one master folder? The merge function seems like it creates a lot of unecessary duplicates that would have to be deleted later.

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