Old iPhoto project files missing captions after upgrading from OSX 10.4 to 10.7.4

Hi Everyone,
I'm hoping you might be able to assist me please! I had created a bunch of iPhoto project books whilst using OSX 10.4 and the version of iPhoto that resided there. I've recently upgraded all the way up to 10.7.4 and installed the most recent version of iPhoto so that I can finally purchase these photo books. iPhoto "upgraded" my projects and now all my captions have been replaced by the "ipsum lorem" template text! Is there any way I can recover the caption text from the hundreds of pages? Do they reside in a file somewhere on my Mac or have they been wiped away during the upgrade?
Thanks for you time and consideration!

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