Restore keychain from another machine

Lost keychain when installing 10.5 on g5. Have info on iBook's keychain. Can't import it....can I???

I downloaded the Keychain update which on it's own doesn't sort the problem that I had out as I need to get my old items back and 10.5 created an new empty keychain.
I used to have just one keychain as 'rob' (my login name) but now I have one called login.keychain. I copied my old 'rob' keychain gave it the .keychain extension, double clicked on login.keychain, removed the login group then double clicked on rob.keychain and it read the backup version okay.
Now I all seems to be okay and original we-site passwords work. Wat do those that have no problems have in ~/Library/Keychains ? a login.keychain or their username? as I will remove the login.keychain and restore rob.keychain if it matches what everyone else has.

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