IPhoto 6 transfer to iPhoto 09

I am shifting my iPhoto 6 photos from my Power Mac G5 onto a new iMac with iPhoto 09. I did this by putting my iPhoto 6 library onto an external drive, and then importing the library into my new iMac with iPhoto 09. Seems to have gone OK, but the iPhoto screen on my iMac is frozen (photos are visible and look OK)because on the left side of the screen under LIBRARY are four categories titled Events, Photos, Faces and Places. Next to "Faces" is a circle composed of two arrows that has been spinning for 3+ hours. Any idea why this is happening and what I should do to "unfreeze" my machine? I suspect there may be some incompatibility issues between iPhoto 6 and iPhoto 09, but can't I work through this? Both OS are Mac OS X (10.5.7)so there is no problem with the two OS. Thanks, Buster

I did this by putting my iPhoto 6 library onto an external drive, and then importing the library into my new iMac with iPhoto 09.
No you do not import old iPhoto libraries into newer ones
You just drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity into the pictures folder of the new machine and launch iPhoto - iPhoto converts the library and everything in fine (the faces scan can take a while depending on how many photos you have - my 30,000 photos took about 18 hours for the initial scan
Let it finish and see where you are
LN

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