IPhoto 4: photo library incompatible

When I loaded iPhoto this morning, it told me I needed to update my photo library to be compatible with this version of iPhoto. I'm not sure why it did that, as my last update was last month to version 4.0.3. So I clicked on the button to proceed and fifteen minutes later, I tried to load iPhoto agin. Now I get the message "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto". Not good. I then tried to download the latest version of iPhoto, but it requires $$ and there WASN'T anything wrong with my previous version.
Any guidance?
Thanks.
Ken
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi, Ken. Have you recently received some photos on a CD that might have been burned in a more recent version of iPhoto than your own? Is that CD in the computer now? If so, eject it, then try opening iPhoto again.
Any CD that's burned from within iPhoto contains an iPhoto Library folder — i.e., a complete iPhoto database of those photos that were burned to the CD. That's considerably more data than just the photos themselves, and your older version of iPhoto isn't able to open the newer database format created by iPhoto 5.x or 6.x. But neither is it smart enough to stop trying and resort to opening your own iPhoto Library instead: it just knocks itself out trying to open the one on the CD, and finally gives up with the error message you saw.
Remove the newer database from its field of vision, and iPhoto should return to normal — but you won't be able to import the photos from the CD into your version of iPhoto.
As a practical matter, if you know you're going to get photos from someone who has a newer version of iPhoto than you do, ask them to export the pix from iPhoto to the desktop and burn a CD for you in the Finder rather than in iPhoto. Then you'll be able to view and import the photos from the CD without any problem.
If you often unexpectedly receive pictures from people who have newer iPhoto versions, and you can't alert them to your need beforehand, you should upgrade to the latest version if at all possible, to save yourself and the others a lot of extra hassle and annoyance.

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