I deleted an user account and need to recover an iPhoto library + albums

I deleted a user - and didn't realize that my main iPhoto Library belonged to that user. I want to somehow recover the photos AND albums so that I can import them into another user's iPhoto without having to sift thru thousands of photos to repiclate the original albums.
I am both users - I just run two accounts on the same computer. I have almost all of the photos in my other user account but not my last vacation nor any album information. So I'm currently stuck with 80% of my photos and no album information until I figure this out.
The deleted user account is present and I can get a disk image of it. I just don't know how to procede. I tried dropping the album xtml file into iPhoto but that didn't work. (D'uh) Is there a fix for this?
TIA

Hi Brooks, The right way to do it is to import the photos from within iPhoto. iPhoto doesn't like it when you drop stuff in from within Finder. Ditto iTunes.
Open iPhoto>File>Import to library...
Navigate to the albums in the deleted user folder, click 'Import'.
Hope this helps.
Adrian

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