IPhoto import ignores titles, descriptions

Years ago, I had limited harddrive space, so I used iPhoto to export old photos to photo CDs. When I insert said CDs, iPhoto opens them without a hitch, including all the titles and descriptions that I had arduously spent time filling out long ago.
Now that I have greater harddrive space, I'd like to have all these exported photos back on my harddrive, all in one place. So I tell iPhoto to import the photos from the photo CDs. To my dismay, the imported photos have the filenames (e.g. "IMG_1079") as their titles, and the descriptions are empty. iPhoto does not recognize its own title/description signature in the photo CDs it exported!
Anyone know of a way I could make iPhoto import the thousands of photos I have stored away WITH the titles and descriptions that I spent so much time writing?
Thanks!
Phil

Okay thanks for the tip, I think I might be one small step closer.
I copied the "iPhoto Library" folder off the disk, and double clicked the "Library6.iPhoto" file (so it must have been created by iPhoto 6). iPhoto '09 proceeded to convert the library to the '09 format, and the photos in this newly transformed library retain their titles and descriptions. Yay!
But now I need to figure out a way to merge this library into my main library. I tried importing this library into my main one, but it resulted in the same problem of ignoring the titles and descriptions. Drag-and-dropping the newly created library into the main library brings the same result.

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>i keep on having problems with my title, description
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>
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>
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with google is to
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>
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