Photos open in Preview, won't import to iPhoto

iMac G5
MAC OS X 10.3.9
iPhoto 5.0.4
After coming home from college I noticed that the iPhoto on my family's home computer wasn't opening at all. After following the different instructions on the discussion boards with no success, I found the only thing that would work was to create a new library and rebuild it manually. I would go to File->Add to Library, then I would import photos from the individual folders in "Rebuilt Library" (I had previously used iPhoto Library Manager to try and rebuild the library and thought taking the pictures from the "Rebuilt Library" would be a good idea.)
Some of the photos would import but with others I would receive the message "Couldn't create: /Users/user/Desktop/iPhotoLibrary1/2006/08/04/IMG0702.JPG" This usually would happen with more than one photo in the folder and after all the files that could be imported were done a pop-up entitled "Unreadable Files" would appear with the message "The following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data).
The photos that iPhoto deems unreadable can still be opened with Preview however.
I would love to be able to rebuild the library to resemble how it was before the whole mess happened, so any help would be great!
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Danika Johnson

Danika
Those files that open in Preview, open them in Preview and then save them. Then try import them.
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