Importing Library and albums from an other computer

Hello everyone,
I just bought a new iMac and I am trying to import all my pictures from my old Powerbook.
What I did is to copy the old "iPhoto Library" (of the old computer) into the "Pictures" directory of the new computer.
This works fine, iPhoto updates the format of the iPhoto Library (I had an older version of iPhoto on the old computer) and all the pictures are there.
However, ALL THE ALBUM STRUCTURE that I created over numerous years IS COMPLETELY LOST.
The pictures are just all together in the library, so I should manually create all the albums again. That is a pain, it's more than 5,000 pictures.
Anyone knows how to import all the album structure from the old computer?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Guido

What you are describing is the correct procedure - just to verify you are dragging the iPhoto library as a single entity from the old computer to the new computer aren't you? That should work fine and converting from iPhoto 5 to iPhoto '09 is not a problem that I have seen reported (I have never done it) - your converted library should be identical to your old library including all books, albums, slideshows (there have been a few problems reported here - be sure you have version 8.0.2 before converting), etc.
You mention importing - there is no importing involved - just quit iPhoto on both machines and drag the iPhoto library across a network, a firewire target mode connection or to an EHD and to your your machine.
You might rebuild a copy of the library on the old computer and try the rebuilt one - although this does not sound like a library corruption issue, but it is worth a try
LN

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