Moving albums from PSE 9 on PC to iPhoto '11 on Mac

Hi,
I'd like to move all my photos and my albums that I've setup in PSE 9 on my PC to iPhoto '11 on my iMac. I have been able to move just the photo files and import them into iPhoto, however, I lose all the albums if I just to an import.
I tried following the process outlined at the bottom of this post (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080702225914AAmKVhU), but it didn't work the way I thought as it transferred only the photos and it didn't maintain the albums.
Has anyone figured out a way to move all photos along with their respective PSE 9 albums to iPhoto '11?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

Well, no, this isn't going to work (at least it doesn't for 99% of the people who think it's what they'll do). For one thing, it's not how to use iphoto: you run a serious risk of inadvertently writing something to the iphoto library from outside iphoto and that will corrupt the library. Eventually you are going to have to choose between organizer and iphoto as your main photo management tool. Your current procedure will drive you crazy eventually.
If you want to organize photos in iphoto and edit them in PSE, there are two ways to do it:
1. Set PSE as your external organizer, use iphoto to browse your photos and send them from iphoto to the PSE editor. Save, not save as, without changing the name or format and iphoto will remember one version plus original (what you mean by 'stacks' is not stacks but version sets, I realize after seeing your post in the apple forum).
2. Export photos from iphoto to the desktop, edit in PSE and then save the new photo under a new name and import it as a new image to iphoto.
But your current procedure is just going to cause untold confusion down the road, even if you don't manage to damage your iphoto library.
If you find the mac organizer satisfactory (it's very much a 1.0 effort at this point) then use that instead of iphoto, but using both almost always leads to confusion later on.

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