Photoshop Album to iPhoto

Hi together,
I stopped to support Bill G. and moved to Apple a few days ago... I have 2000 photos being digitalized from real photo. They were maintained in Photoshop Album with Tag, Dates, etc.
A) Is there a possibility to pull this information anyhow? I don't want to update more than 2000 photos by hand; if this is the case, my turn to Mac was probably a mistake!
B) Furthermore I added information at Windows (as description, etc.) to those files. But it seems, that my Mac is not able to read this information... Is this possible and what I have to do?
Thanks in advance
h-a-r-r-y

Terence, You sound like you may be the best one to ask this question. I find the iPhoto method of tagging the photos very easy to use as in our daily work process there are maybe 20-30 basic variables features of our images and then we can combine a few simple clicks to properly tag each image. I have done this for thousands of our images here at the office ( on my Mac) and the problem I am facing is now that I have done that I am having my employees connect to my iPhoto over our network and they cannot search my photos using the tags, and I am not able to or I have not been able to figure out how to export my images to a main database of images with the tags attached. Do you know of anyway to work around this ? note we are still in 10.4 OS and still using iPhoto 6.0 , would upgrading solve this problem? thanks in advance - Eric

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