IPhoto won't work on my OLD imac after using migration assistant to my new imac.

So I recently used migration assistant to transfer all of my documents, music, photos, etc. to my new imac which was purchased a month ago.  I used an 800 firewire and the migration was successful and there seems to be not problems on the new computer.  However I went on my old imac to load some new photos off of my iphone.  Much to my dismay iphoto opened up with a window that said, "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto. You have made changes to your photo library using a newer version of iPhoto.  Please quit and use the latest version of iPhoto."  I don't recall ever using iPhoto on either of the computers during migration assistant aside from putting the old photos into iPhoto on the new computer.  The old imac is a Mac OS X 10.5.8 and it still has iLife '06.  So how would I go about fixing this?  Should I update to iLife '11 or is there an easier way without using new software?  Thank you!

Then that looks ver like you opened the Library on the old machine with the new iPhoto on the new machine, and it has now been updated to iPhoto 11.
Before deciding to update, make sure your machine can run the same version of iPhoto as the new machine.
Regards
TD

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