Iphoto migration problems with faces

I recently attempted to migrate my iPhoto Library from my old iMac to my new MBP by copying it to an external drive and then copying that to the MBP hard drive.  The iMac was running iPhoto 9 (couldn't upgrade the OS due to RAM limitations) and the MBP is running iPhoto 11.  The original library had a minor problem with Faces in that it would always identify a few faces for certain people but even after hitting "confirm" it would still leave those as unconfirmed.  A minor annoyance and I didn't really care.  Since transferring it however, Faces on the MBP takes literally 5-10 minutes to close once I hit "save" after confirming faces.  If I click on the icon in the dock during that time it says "Application Not Responding."  In addition, some of the faces are now blank boxes with dashed lines around them. 
I've run through all the repair options within iPhoto (via the command-option menu when starting it) including a rebuild.  When that didn't help I rebuilt the library with iPhoto Library Manager.  Now it doesn't recognize any unconfirmed faces as belonging to anyone whom I've already categorized.  I did upload new photos, tagged a couple faces and it didn't recognize that the same face in the same scene in another photo was likely the same person as in the previous 4 photos.  Weird.  Stranger still is that Faces now has tagged a bunch of people with the wrong names.  So I open up Aunt Jane's Faces folder and there's the faces of Uncle Mark, Cousin Pete, etc.  Clearly something is corrupted.  I could just go back to using the old Library on the iMac and hope it doesn't totally kick the bucket but it's never been the same since I upgraded it to Mountain Lion and I'd really like to have access to my photos on my MBP.  Any suggestions?  TIA. 

Hi, can't be on 10.3, what is the OSX version you're on?
If 10.7.0 or later...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
Reboot & hold option or alt key when opening iPhoto.
Any change?

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