IView Media Pro 2.x into Aperture

I consider to buy Aperture. However, my main issue/question is how to get my 40'000 pictures including all my keywords from iView Media Pro 2.6 (I think) into Aperture. I have used many of the given "Keywords" in iView like country, people, event but I also created some of my own.
Is there a way to get all that information into Aperture too? My hope is, that there are some plug-ins or Apple Scripts around. But so far I did not find anything. Or can Aperture read csv?
Thanks a lot for any advice.
Jacques
PS: Where is the new MBP? ;-(

Jean
There is an Applescript called Annoture. I tried using it for some work last week and it seems to be broken with Leopard. Maybe a fix is coming soon, otherwise you could get a spare drive and install Tiger to run the script.

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