Projects on iPhoto on different libraries

so that's the thing:
i have been using couple of different libraries to manage my photos.
finally, having had some problems managing everything at its best, i decided to start over again and have all my pictures in one library stored on my internal hard drive. i've created projects and purchased books and cards from iphoto with my previous libraries.
how do i import these projects into my new library i'm creating now?
iPhoto 11 (9.2.1)
Mac Os X Lion (10.7.3)
thanks
franOz
i found a discussion that says it is not possible to merge the projects.
is there anything new?
Message was edited by: franoz

There is no built-in functionality in iPhoto to merge Libraries:
You can export your events one-by-one from the smaller libraries to folders on your hard drive and import those folders as events inro your main library, but this will not prserve your books and slide shows.
You can buy the paid version of to iPhoto Library Manager to merge your libraries. This also will not transfer books from to second library to the first during merge (afaik) but it has an option to avoid duplicates, and you will not have to merge one project at a time, see eg. this discussion: merge iphoto libraries with iphoto library manager
Regards
Léonie

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