IPhoto 7 ('08) not reading iPhoto 6 library

I decided to do a completely clean reinstall (erase and install) before upgrading to iLife 08. After installing 10.4.10 and iLife '08, I started up iPhoto 08, and I saw a completely blank library. I restarted iPhoto holding down the option key, selected Choose Library, looked on my external harddrive (USB), found the iPhoto Library folder but couldnt click on it because it was greyed out. How can I get the new iPhoto to play nice with my old iPhoto info?

To gothamoddisee:
I too had the same problem but I've resolved it with a little tweaking. The differences in our problem are that: 1) My iPhoto library is in my local hard drive (macbook) and 2) I did not do a clean install of iPhoto '08. Instead I did an upgrade or rather installed '08 with '06 still in the system.
PS. Caveat: I'm not an expert nor a techy, but I do all right
After upgrading the app, I was able to play with it for an hour or two until the system recognized the iphoto update 7.0.1 and so I did the upgrade. After the upgrade, I opened the app only to encounter a message telling me that some of the thumbnails have been changed (I'm paraphrasing here) and the app needs to rebuild the thumbnails which will take time. I didn't have the time however, since school beckoned me. I quit the app and I can never see the photos again in my iphoto '08.
What I started the app, I saw a blank dark grey screen on "Events" and a blank white screen on "Photos."
I tried everything people suggested here and they did little to remedy my situation.
The problem I saw had to do with accessing the photos inside the iPhoto Library under my pictures folder. I, too, can no longer access it. Double-clicking this file opens iPhoto, but it can't access the photos.
Thinking everything was lost, I checked and found out that this file was large, so there is a possibility that the photos are still inside. I just needed a way to get to them and copy them to an external hard drive, since I didn't anticipate situation such as this can ever occur on mac (I'm a convert from PC, you see, and I was sold on the promise that mac can never go wrong. Go figure ;-(
I tried the importing the library, but I can't open the iphoto library since it was GREYED-OUT too.
Anyway, I access those photos by right clicking the file and choosing "Show package content," found my original photos and copy them onto the desktop (and an external drive) and deleted the ones inside the iPhoto Library.
I, then, imported the ones on the desktop onto iphoto and then they were back. The only downside is that all of the modifications I had done prior were lost and thus had to modify them again (i.e. rotate, resize, etc.)
Don't know how everyone else solved their dilemma, but this is my way of fixing it. Until this moment, I don't know what went wrong, but at least I can access my photos again.
I hope this helps.

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