Missing photos in upgrade to iPhoto '08

I'm sure there's an easy answer but I haven't found it yet.
New MacBook with Leopard. Old G4/Tiger behaved very badly in the migration - I actually migrated data from a backup on an external drive.
Almost all my pics transferred but for some 207 or so from this summer. Old G4 got fixed. Have that one running. How to bring pics into iPhoto? Hmmm.. if I export I lose data.. AH ha I said, I'll burn a CD. No problem. Iphoto '08 reads photos fine.. but I want them IN my main library so that I can manipulate them. Send them to Facebook, email them, delete quite a few.... I bought IPhoto Library Manager - it doesn't see the CD. What to do?
Thanks for help. I'm stumped. AND I know there's got to be an answer.

You know, I'm stumped too because I'm not sure what you're asking.
Here are some tips:
You can move files and associated metadata betwen libraries usng iPhoto Library Manager.
If you have a CD created in iPhoto and pop it into a machine with iPhoto installed then the CD will show up in the iPhoto Window. You can add files from the CD to the Library simply by dragging them from the CD to the Library in the iPhoto Window.
Regards
TD

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