IPhoto 09 no longer recognises old iPhoto pictures downloaded from old iMac

My new imac is great but the old picture files from my previous two imacs appear as thumbnails or jpegs but when i click on them in iPhoto i get a blank page. how do i view/edit my old pix?

Terence, Thank you for all the work you invest in helping people.
I have installed iphoto 11 and had only one problem with adding additional photos to my books. It seemed to get corrected in the last OS update (10.6.5). My problem is I am afraid to go on with 11 because of all the issues I see on these forums. I had backups and I have gone back to 09 on my wife's Imac. I have one issue on it not showing the images for photos I added after a certain date. The count in the events is correct, but no image shows. I know I can fix it with some investment of time.
At this stage I would rather stick with 11. I am scanning a lot of old time family photos and making books. For safety I am exporting all scanned photos to a separate file on my HD in case 11 goes belly up on me. That takes a lot of extra work to try to keep the exported photos organized in case I ever had to use them to restore back to 09.
I am 81 years old and time is important to me in trying to accomplish my goals for the family photos left by my parents. Even though I have used Macs since 1984, I am not as sharp on the technical issues anymore. I am comfortable with iphoto 11 functionality. I am just worried there is some bug lurking out there that will bite me when I keep making my photo library bigger or add some software item to my system. Right now I am at 5,600 photos in my library and I have started numerous books I want to eventually publish and some I have already published. My books are photo essays and involve a lot of work. Losing them would be devastating. I do have them backed up with time machine.
I think a lot of the problems people are having are compatibility issues which Apple will eventually fix. They always have fixed things but this one sounds like a big fix is needed. You have been around awhile, do you think Apple is seriously working to make this product as good as the past products any time soon? Do you have access to the Apple engineering activities that would indicate they have a high degree of urgency to improving the product?
Old Toad and others, if you have any opinions on this I would be interested what you think.
I am not interested in receiving more gripes about Iphoto and Apple. I am just looking for comfort that Apple considers this a serious serious problem that needs to be solved sooner than later. I think they are a great company and have the resources to alleviate these issues in a timely manner.

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