Missing titles in iPhoto 6

I bought a copy of iLife '06 when it came out in January. I was a little frustrated with the inability to send pictures to homepage.mac.com. So, I took it off my PowerBook (where I do my iPhoto editing) and put it on my G4 Cube so I might still be able to practice with iWeb because I knew one day I'd get an Intel-based Mac.
Well, that day has come, I have a new MacBook. It's all up-to-date with iPhoto 6.0.3 and I used the Migration Assistant to move my home folder only from the PowerBook to the MacBook with my 15,000 pictures. As I'm now completely re-building my Web site using iPhoto to send my albums to iWeb, I've noticed that quite a few of the "titles" I've used to describe my pictures have disappeared. It's not specific to a date range or a roll or an album. Some albums are missing only one an some are missing all of them.
Now, I do have a backup of my PowerBook (which has been erased for sale now), so if i was forced to I could re-import my library over again, but I've been making a few changes for the past two weeks (including importing new pictures) so I'm a little wary to do that. Does anyone know how I might recover the various titles without re-typing them all?
-Doug

Doug:
What are you finding in place of the titles? The original file name? When the titles are changed in iPhoto the changes are recorded in the AlbumData.xml file.
Why some would lose the title and others not is strange.
A long shot would be to use iPhoto Library Manager, free version, to rebuild the desktop. It doesn't touch your existing library folder but creates a new one while reading from the old data files. Might be worth a try. All that you can lose is some time. Here's how:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: It can take some time to create the new library if you have a lot of photos. One user reported that with a library of about 5,000 images it took about 12 hours so plan ahead.

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