IPhoto '09 into Lightroom 3

I'm a Mac user.  Desktop OSX 10.7.5 and MacBook Pro 10.9.1   I want to stop using iPhoto '09 and use Lightroom 3 instead (which is new to me), on the way to CS6 - all of which are already installed on both computers.
I found instructions in LR Help (at http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/import-iphoto.html) but they are for iPhoto '11 into LR 5, and the terminology is a bit different. I'm not familiar enough to interpret the differences on my own.
I just need to get my 70 GB of photos into a single catalog that LR can read/use  -  so I can then start the *real* work of using LR's organization tools.
Anybody? Thanks.
Spoonplayer

Terence,
You rock for posting such a quick reply so late at night. Thank you!
I forgot about those checkboxes. Excellent point. Thanks for the description heads up. I'm fine losing the faces info (esp. since LR3 doesn't offer it as you said). It's the keywords and titles that I've spent 100's of hours on
Have you tried importing to LR with exported metadata? Did it work end to end for you? I'll check out iPhoto to Disk in depth.
I would like to keep my originals and the modified versions. Do you know of any way to avoid doubling the item count in my library to nearly a quarter of a million? I am hoping to avoid having an original and modified version of each file. I actually suffered that once through an iPhoto issue a couple of years ago and hope not to repeat.
To add more context to my Aperture and iPhoto '11 comments, the iPhoto '11 comments are purely a reflection of what I've read in hours of forum reading and not my direct experience. On Aperture, my experiences are actually limited -- focusing solely on importing a huge iPhoto library to Aperture. I spent tens of hours over several weeks trying to migrate and simply failed. The memory leaks got me time and again, no matter how I reconfigured the import (for example by splitting 110K photos into approx 50 individual imports). I should've called out that once (partially) imported, everything seemed to be faster and smoother in Aperture than in iPhoto. Thanks for the call out.
Guy

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