IPhoto faces and places lost after format?

Hi all,
I am about to format my HD to have a clean reinstall of Snow Leopard. Meanwhile I have to say that I have a full backup using TimeMachine. Will the details on my photos (places,faces,rating etc.) be lost after the format?
Also do I need to pay attention to something specific? Does anyone have anything to advice me to avoid or to do,cause it will be the first time I'm doing it.
Thank you in advance,
Nick

I tried again with iPhoto updater and this time it worked on 2 of my 3 libraries so the albums and folders were preserved. I also had not realised that iPhoto updater needed to be opened from Utilities folder nad had thought it would work automatically once downloaded (one -to -one in store trainer had not realised this either).
I then remembered that there was one .mov file shot on my " still "digital camera in an iPhoto album. Once I removed this iPhoto updater worked on the 3rd library so old folders and albums preserved.
Even then there was one small folder of images which has not transfered via Target mode. For unknown reasons when I transferred these images from camera to old MCP they were jumbled and not in normal date order. I will try transferring these images to new MBP on a memory stick.
Thanks for persuading me to persist

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