IPhoto won't open copied IPhoto Library

We just bought two new MacBook Pros and imported all our 11,000 plus pictures into the first MacBook. After investing quite a bit of time organizing the pictures into 166 Events we have IPhoto on the first machine very much the way we want it. The resultant IPhoto Library file is 18.15 gb.
Now it is time to bring that library into the second MacBook Pro. We connected the two MacBook's via ethernet and successfully copied the IPhoto Library file from the one machine to the other.
Now we get to the problem. The result of the copy was a file in the second McBook named IPhoto Library copy. Whenever we try and open that file, IPhoto opens the main IPhoto Library.
How can we open the copy?

IScarl
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launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and use the select library option to change to a different library - repeat to change back
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