Moving iPhoto library back to iMac

I'm in the last stages of upgrading to a new iMac, external drive and Time Capsule. Currently I have my iPhoto libraries (each user) on the external drive. I want to move them to the iMac. This should be simple but it seems that when ever I do something in iPhoto with upgrades or new devices I invarialblly mess something up and I lose photos.
I have iPhoto Library manager. Should I be using that app to perfrom this operation?
What's the most effective way to do this?
Thanks.

No - simply drag the iPhoto library from the external drive to the internal drive (this is for an iPhoto library - t is NOT for a Time Machine backup of an iPhoto lbirary - that has to be restored using Time Machine)
If you do not have an existing iPhoto library on the computer just drag it to the pictures folder and launch iPhoto - if you do have an existing library you will have to rename it and drag the library to the pictures folder - in that case depress and hold the option key and lanch iphoto using the resulting select library command to switch libraries - or with recent versions of iPhoto use the switch library command
LN

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