IDVD6 and iPhoto6 installation rendered older iDVD projects useless

Had some iDVD5 projects in progress and then installed iLife6. Can't open the older iDVD projects with iDVD6, all iPhotos are missing and the system does not seem to be able to find them again. This is because the file stucture of iPhoto6 is different from the one in iPhoto5.
Worse, iDVD6 eventually hangs up and needs to be force-quit.
After this happens, iDVD6 always tries to open the old project, hangs up, etc. Deleting the preference file is the only option to get to iDVD6 again.
Does anybody have a solution? How can I use my older iDVD projects? How can I help iDVD6 to find the missing iPhoto files?
Dual G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Did you backup your iPhoto Library before upgrading?
If so, you can do some renaming to get iDVD to point to the 'old' iPhoto Library that has the structure that iDVD needs to access it. I am sorry that I cannot get the exact instructions to you right now...look in iPhoto for posts addressing this. The poster Old Toad has specific directions...he is one of iPhoto's gurus...and you will probably be able to get your photos into iDVD again.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=314273&tstart=350

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