Moving originals and modified to another computer

I'm having an issue copying photos over from one mac to another. I made the mistake this weekend of importing photos from my camera to my work computer, and now I want them on my home mac.
I tried coping the folders in both the originals and modified and pasted to the home library, but they didn't show up when I launched iPhoto. Then I tried copying over the roll's data, and that didn't work.
I also tried renaming the roll's folders as the numbers were not out of sync.
Any thoughts? Isn't this all XML driven?

Slapshot Scott
It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss.
Remember, iPhoto is a database, data has to be imported. Simply putting it into a folder is not enough. This is further complicated by the fact that iPhoto will not import from the iPhoto Library Folder.
If you have edited and tagged etc, and don't want to lose this information, then use iPhoto Library Manager and merge the required elements of the two libraries. You can download iPLM from here:
http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster/iphotolibrarymanager.html
Otherwise, simply put the files on the desktop and go file -> Import.
Regards
TD

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