Restoring Pictures from .mac backup utility to a new G5

Does anyone know how to do this? The migration assistant would not bring all my iphoto library pictures onto my new G5. At the Apple store they tried to export the photos from my old G4 onto a external drive and then bring them into the G5. When I got a chance to review the photos in IPhoto 6 (I originally had approx 5,000 pictures on the G4) on my new G5, it was evident that many photos are missing. When I scroll through the Library there are now sections that show hundreds of white squares where photos used to be. The people at the Apple store said the restore function of the .mac backup utility should not be used to import photos onto a different computer because they are "tied to a different user folder" that resides on the G4 and not on the new G5. My guess is that I probably need to get these actually reimported into Iphoto 6 or copied into the dated subfolder that Iphoto 6 is "seeing" but which is empty. The funny thing is that my slide shows all tranferred but many of them also are empty. I almost wish that I didn't purchase the G5. Can any of you offer me suggestions om how to resolve this?
Power Mac G4 and G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Polecat:
Do you still have access to the iPhoto Library folder on the G4? If so just copy it to the G5, either over a LAN or via Firewire and Target Mode into the Pictures folder on the G5. Then download and run BatChmod on the iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, substituting your account name for mine. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.
When you next launch iPhoto on the G5 the library should be complete.
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