PS Album to iPhoto importing -- keeping keywords?

I have decided to move from PC to mac and I am trying to move a couple of hundred photos from Adobe Album on my old PC to iPhoto on the mac. All of my photos had keyword/tags in Album. Is there a way to transfer these keywords to iPhoto?
I was planning on using a backup of my Adobe album to move the files but now I am wondering if there is a better way. I would appreciate any info you can send my way. Thanks!

I tried to drag the entire album, buy it opens, and only shows part of the pictures that are in that album in iPhoto. It appears that iMovie media can only see the jpeg pictures, not the ones that I saved in photoshop format. Thank you.

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PHYLUM_CSV=`grep ${BASEIMAGE} "${RUBRICFILE}" | cut -d , -f 9`
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---- ExifTool ----
ExifTool Version Number : 8.50
---- File ----
File Name : 0M9I5019.jpg
Directory : .
File Size : 527 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2003:11:01 20:54:18-05:00
File Permissions : rwx------
File Type : JPEG
MIME Type : image/jpeg
Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
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---- IPTC ----
Object Name : 0M9I5019, Petrosia (Petrosia) sp. 1895
Keywords : 1_PHYLUM_Porifera, 2_CLASS_Demospongiae, 3_ORDER_Haplosclerida, 4_FAMILY_Petrosiidae, 5_GENUS_Petrosia (Petrosia), 6_SPECIES_sp. 1895
Caption-Abstract : Malaysia, depth 10, depth range 6-10m, wet weight 1168
Application Record Version : 4
---- XMP ----
XMP Toolkit : Image::ExifTool 8.50
Location : 04 20.67N, 113 53.76E
Description : Malaysia, depth 10, depth range 6-10m, wet weight 1168
Subject : 1_PHYLUM_Porifera, 2_CLASS_Demospongiae, 3_ORDER_Haplosclerida, 4_FAMILY_Petrosiidae, 5_GENUS_Petrosia (Petrosia), 6_SPECIES_sp. 1895
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