Iphoto 6 to 11; Can I save Albums?

I've just bought a shiny new IMac and am importing photos from my old emac w/ IPhoto 6. Got the photos just fine but I cannot figure out how to import the albums created in 6. Any help? I really don't want to have to manually create them again.
Don

I bought my shiny new Mac today and want to do the same thing BUT I followed the advice of the guy at the store who said to just import the photos from my external hard drive (where I had previously stored my library so I would have a backup). I did this and it worked but my albums didn't import and I've found a lot of duplicate images (it looks like any edits done in iPhoto were saved as a separate event so I have the original photo in one event sorted by date and then the edited image in a separate event with the same date).
No - Never import an iPhoto library into another iPhoto library - as you have found it does not work and you end up with massive duplication
Should I go onto my new Mac and just delete the iPhoto Library and follow the instructions in this thread so that I can start again?
Yes
Connect the two Macs together (network, firewire target mode, etc) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old Mac to the pictures folder of the new Mac - launch iPhoto on the new mac and it will open the library and convert it as needed and you will be ready move forward.
But, to further complicate things, I also have events in iPhoto on my old laptop that I want to be on my shiny new Mac. Going forward, the new Mac will be my only source for working in iPhoto and I will just use the external drive as a backup. How can I get the events that are on my laptop but not on my external drive (and albums!) onto the new Mac?
I'm not sure what you are saying here - the procedure I outlined above will transfer your old iPhoto library exactly with all of its components intact
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