Importing iphoto albums of old mac

Hi, I have just bought a new macbook pro running iphoto 11. I used to have an older ibook with little storage so i transferred photos from 2008-2002 to external hard drive.
Recently, I selected these photos that i have stored on external hard drive, dragged them into new iphoto but they havent gone into their original albums. Is there anyway I can get these photos assigned back into their original albums??? please help me!
I was assuming that each jpeg has a number assigned to it which would be stored with relation to album assignment ect, but doesnt seem to be the case.

Thanks for that. I kind of assumed this was the case. What I am worried about is dragging the iphoto library (off hard drive, which is not up dated) onto the new library folder and it replaces the current library which has many new photos on it.
Of course it would - you said you have a new mac - not one with existing photos - so you need to drag the iPhoto library from the old system to the new (different) system desktop (or another folder) so you do not overwrite your (unmentioned) existing library and depress the option key and launch iphoto using the select library option to point to this copied library - once it is converted you can purchase iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - and merge teh libraries
When I bought the new mac I did the transfer of the two macs on start up with fire wire cable. worked well, but i had deleted off the current library the older photos which i kept stored on the hard drive.
I am not clear what this means
LN

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Message was edited by: Kappy

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