Migrating photos and albums from

Hello,
I have just replaced my PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X (10.4.11) with a new MacBook Pro running Mac OS X (10.6.2) and I would like to migrate all my photos, videos and albums (logical groupings of photos) from iPhoto 5 (5.0.4 (263)) to iPhoto 09 (8.1.1 (419)).
I have used the in-built export tool and then the in-built import tool and it works fine for photos only (I have used the album name to export if it is important to know). It means that no videos was exported/imported and no album was transferred. I could copy the videos manually even if it is not a great solution. But I don't see how I can copy my albums. Please don't tell me that I have to re-create them because they cover over 6 years of photos and it is going to take me ages.
There must be a way to do it.
Many thanks for your help.
Remi.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
The trick is not to move the Photos, it's to move the Library.
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network, Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.
Regards
TD

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