How to import Aperture library into iPhoto 08?

Until recently I was an iphoto 08 user and decided to try Aperture 2.1. I exported the iphoto 08 library into aperture. I'm overwhelmed by Aperture and want to return to the simplicity of iphoto. My aperture library sits on an external drive.
Please help! Thanks

Hi Niel, thanks again. I reviewed the link. I must be dense;-)
I want to move the entire iphoto library off the external drive and back onto my laptop so I can run iphoto and not have to attach the external drive. So, I closed iphoto, went into finder, clicked iphoto library file on the external drive, and dragged it onto the iphoto folder in applications. This did not work.
Is there a simple way to do this?

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