Reliability of iPhoto 6 ?

Hi,
I've been using iView Media for months now, since I encountered some performance issues with iPhoto 5 and photo imported from some Nikon camera.
Now I would like to move back to iPhoto 5 before upgrading to iPhoto 6, unfortunately I know no other way than importing the 3000 photos one by one. (BTW, if anyone else has another method, feel free to let me know).
I have now 500 pictures in my iPhoto 5 and while I import 80 others, the application (iPhoto 5) crashes.
It seems that iPhoto 6 has improvements about the number of picture that can be managed and also about the performance.
Can someone who tested iPhoto 6 confirm me that the performance for the import as well as picture management in the application improved ?
Do you know if Apple fixed the problems we had in the past with the pictures imported from some Nikon camera ?
Thanks in advance
PB 17" 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.4)

So I want to know what they are so I can experiment with doing some of my photo management in iPhoto, and some directly through the file system. And I want to try to do things like delete Library6.iphoto but I don't want to spend an hour re-entering the dates for all of my rolls when iPhoto recreates the rolls with the weird dates that it grabs.<<<</div>
That's what I had expected. Don't tamper with the iPhoto library unless you enjoy bleeding ulcers. The following is pasted from the iPhoto "Help" screens:
IMPORTANT: If you move, delete, rename, or otherwise touch files or folders within this folder, you may be unable to see your pictures in the iPhoto application.
What is it that you want to do that you're unable to do from INSIDE iPhoto?

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Someone has posted this method of burning photos which I have found VERY VERY useful
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If you then delete the pics from iphoto it will not keep the thumbnails, but you will be able to view the pics in iPhoto if you insert the disk."
I have found that I can select several albums to burn. However, my question is - has anyone found any problems with losing pics when they burn a DVD & then delete the photos from iPhoto. OR any other problems? I DON'T want to lose precious photos!! When I inquired about purchasing PSE 6.0 they told me that it was much more reliable than iPhoto in not losing pics ?????
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This is an amusing piece of twaddle:
When I inquired about purchasing PSE 6.0 they told me that it was much more reliable than iPhoto in not losing pics ?????
PSE is a +photo editor+. It does not organise, store or manage pics. It’s like saying that Word will mind your files better than the Finder.
IF you burn the files to the DVD then they are on the DVD, that’s it. If you then remove them from iPhoto they are still on the DVD. Just test the DVD to be sure.
Better ways of saving space: move your Library to a large, inexpensive external disk.
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Trying to back up my iphoto library to an external hard drive. About halfway through I get an error message telling me one of the images can't be accessed, error 36.
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I then located the file in question in my library but when I tried to delete the troublesome file, it completely froze my entire computer. After about 15 minutes of the hard drive whirling away, Finder finally crashed.
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Assuming you mean error -36, not 36, I' ve been having serious error -36 ugliness, also with my precious iPhoto Library. (:-(
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If you're Unix-savvy, use shell cp command (cp -rvf, I think; log standard error to a file); otherwise use Carbon Copy Cloner to make the backup.
Either way, the logged errors will show you the names (and paths) of problem files, e.g.:
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I believe that if you do this, you've at least cleaned up the mess so that you won't have to worry about corrupt file/error -36 - e.g. now be able to back up files using Finder Copy. I also think this orderly deletion of files in iPhoto is apt to be more reliable for iPhoto; I'm concerned that iPhoto may not be robust enough to recover from source files in its database - <poof> - just disappearing (for the years I've been using iPhoto, it's always seemed fragile).
As suggested in the referenced previous thread, if the drive is going south, it seems like you'd want to stop using it ASAP and safely get your data to a more reliable one - and also further backed up elsewhere.
Anyone dealing with error -36 hassles would likely benefit from any further comments on how best to deal with this calamity. I'd be very interested in hearing from experienced techs on the relationship between -36 errors and drive failure.
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This is user error - not in any way a function of backing up to an external Drive - a properly done backup and restore gives you exactly what you had whe you did the backup - that is the whole purpose of a backup - and it works perfectly if done correctly
I was told by someone USB & ED's "don't change the size" (it does zip them) & to increase the dpi & KB on those, just "double click" on each photo in the iPhoto app - didn't work! So any other better / real ideas how to increase the dpi/KB would be more than welcome, as I can't print any of my older photos, the size is too small
this is a very cofussed set of statements
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2 - Most backups do not zip photos - some do - zipping does not change the content when you unzip
3 - DPI is not an atribute of a photo - it is a mathmatical caculation - dots (pixels) divided by inches - you do not have DPI until you have inches (either a display or a print)
4 - the only way to "change" DPI is ot change inches - for a given photo the only way DPI can be increased is by printing a smaller photo - decreasing inches
5 - the KB of a photo is not material - the only things that is interesting is the pixel dimensions - and you can not make them larger
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