IPhoto has altered my photos during sharing so I can't open them on my Mac Mini

I recently bought a Mac Book Air that is running Lion. I opend the home sharing preferences on my network and then proceeded to view my photos with iPhoto on the Mac Book. In order to view them the photos seemed to have been altered to open with the latest version of iPhoto that came installed on the laptop. Then when I tried to open iPhoto on my Mac Mini it said that my library has been altered to a newer version and i must use that version to open the files.
Do I know have to pay to upgrade my Mini becase my Laptop is running newer versions or is there a way to install the software from my laptop as I have already purchased this software once?

When you open an older iLibrary you get a warning that it must be upgraded and that once it is upgraded previous versions of iPhoto can not access it - if you did this and accepted the upgrade then your options are to restore that library from your backup, upgrade the Mac mini to that same version as your MBA or to start over and create a new library from your original photos
You can not use the laptop software to update other systems (you did not purchase it - it was included with the hardware) - if you purchase software from the App store you can use it on multiple systems that use the same Apple ID
And of course we are speaking of a $15.00 purchase here
LN

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