IPhoto '09 buggy?

From my perspective this is the most buggy release of this software to date.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on the main problem I need to get resolved. In prior versions of iPhoto I've been able to burn a CD or DVD to transfer photos to another computer. Doing it this way retained all the pertinent info relating to the photos including the original versions of images, albums, etc. Now when I try this there are a variety of problems on importing:
1. Albums do not import (the photos and events do, but not albums I've put them in).
2. The original versions do not import (I can't revert to original)
3. Movie files do not import (only a JPEG image of the first frame does).
4. Movie files come in with bogus date and time stamps.
5. A few images will not open properly after import (they are black). I can "fix" this by opening them in Photoshop and re-saving them.
1 & 2 are the killers (especially #2). I can work around the rest. Here is what I know so far. I believe the info is on the burned discs, but it's just not getting imported. When I compare the size of the burned disc to the size of just adding up all the photos it is much larger, which tells me the originals are there.
And here is the most interesting part - this behavior only seems to occur on things which were originally imported and manipulated in iPhoto 09. I can still burn and pull over albums. etc. from iPhoto 09 as long as they originated in a prior version.
I am using v8.02 (I keep all my software current)

Mike:
The iPhoto Library Manager 3.5b which also copies Faces and Places when copying album/events between libraries can be downloaded here. I've run it on some test libraries and it does include the Faces and Places metadata.
NOTE: The link will automatically download and place the application in your User/Downloads folder.
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