Moving pictures to different libraries on iPhoto?

I have been useing iPhoto for three years completely unaware that i could create a second library. i take a lot of pictures, and i have 14,607 pictures all in one library and its become far too confusing to handle. i just created a new library yesterday. i need to move some events from my old one into the new one. after hours of attempting to move them i came to the conclusion that there was no way and i eventually downloaded the free "iPhoto Buddy". it seems alot of people use this. i see how it allows me to acces different libraries easily, but does it supply me with a way to move events from one library to the other? is there ANY way to do this?
i have tried exporting/importing them, but this is far too complicated. it will take me weeks to reorganize it all. am i missing something?

To move groups, albums or events, of photos between libraries and keep keywords, titles, comments, and other metadata intact the only option is to use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager.
Otherwise you could export those photos you want to move out of library A to a folder and import that folder into library B. All you would get are the photos and none of the metadata.
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