New Library, re-imported photos: How to salvage album data etc?

Hi,
I had that problem that seems quite widespread, with iPhoto that wouldn't load anymore (the endlessly rotating loading symbol and, ages later, the "unexpectedly quit" message).
I really wanted to see my new photos, so I moved the iPhoto Library to the desktop and created a new library. My new photos loaded fine from my camera, and I was up and running again.
Since, I have tried reimporting photos from my old library (to do this I clicked and dragged the folders for 2005 and 2006 onto the library in iPhoto under "Source".)
The good news is that it seems that all my photos have loaded without any problem. I did get a message that a number of files (all of them "thumbs") were unreadable, but when I checked them in the new Library folder, they seem to be there...)
Now the problem I face is that, of course, I have lost all my filing information, i.e. albums and photobooks. I have not created any new ones since.
Any chance I can just copy them in ? If so, can you tell me which file(s) I should copy from the old library to the new one ? I don't dare copy them all in case I get back to where I started, i.e. iPhoto won't load...
This is what is in my new Library:
AlbumData.xml
Dir.data
iPhoto.db
iPhoto.ipspot
iPhotoLock.data
Library.iPhoto
Thumb32.data
Thumb64.data
ThumbJPG.data
My old Library has the same list, but also has iPhoto Cache in it, with a lot of folders inside. My new Library has iPhoto Cache alongside it rather than inside it, and it is empty.
Thanks for your patience!
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iPhoto 5.04

Thanks Lori,
Actually, I found the answer in one of your other posts - I downloaded and used iPhoto Library Manager and rebuilt the original corrupt library. I lost my photobooks but I got all my albums back. And I have now created backups so that I'll be safe in the future!

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