Import/Merge/Recreate Photo library?

My G5 died. It had iPhoto '08, quite a few albums, and about 10 gallery albums. I also have a MacBook (which currently only has iPhoto '06, but I'll install iPhoto '08 - as long as it's intel compatible, which I'm guessing it is.) The MacBook has a small group of other photos and a good number of duplicates.
I want to move my iPhoto library from the G5 to the MacBook so that the albums and gallery albums are intact. I can always just import the MacBook's photos afterward. Is this possible? Or, is there a way to move the gallery albums from my iDisk? Or can I only import all the pictures and have to do all the organizing and album creation over again? I'm talking about 2,500 + photos, so I'm hoping there's a good way.
thanks.

My G5 died. It had iPhoto '08, quite a few albums, and about 10 gallery albums. I also have a MacBook (which currently only has iPhoto '06, but I'll install iPhoto '08 - as long as it's intel compatible, which I'm guessing it is.)
It is - as is iPhoto '09
The MacBook has a small group of other photos and a good number of duplicates.
I want to move my iPhoto library from the G5 to the MacBook so that the albums and gallery albums are intact.
Easy - just quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library on the Match book to the desktop and copy the iPhoto library from the G5 to the pictures folder on the MB as a single entity - this will move everything including galleries and albums
I can always just import the MacBook's photos afterward. Is this possible?
It is - the easiest way is to use iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to merge the libraries
Or launch iPhoto while depressing the Option (alt) key and export the photos - kind = current - and import those into iPhoto
LN

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