HT2638 Help! Lost images in iPhoto.

I have spent weeks organising my photos on old MacBook pro (2006) ready to move to new one with Lion and latest IPhoto. I dragged onto an external hard drive and tried to put onto new computer. No images but lots of empty frames and same albums there. I dumped it in trash and went back to old computer where same had happened. It says the photos and albums are there, but there are empty frames and no images. HELP!

Hi Larry
Thanks for responding!
I just filed them in folders by subject and date.
I dragged the IPhoto icon from the toolbar onto the hard drive where it showed up as album data, iphoto data, library data etc. It asked me something about thumbnails and I responded with later.
I then put it on the new computer where the empty frames showed up, with all the new albums etc I'd created, number of photos in each correct. So I dumped that into trash and went back to the old computer to try again and found same there, no photo images.
I clearly was a novice and should have read up on it more. Luckily I have disks with alot of the pictures on them, but I don't want to have to do organization again and some would be missing in any case. The old computer is running iphoto6.0.6.
I am thinking maybe I need to have someone look at it, as I'm terrified of doing the wrong thing and losing it all. What do you think?
Carol

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