Should I upgrade from iPhoto 9 to 11?

Hi
I have been holding back from upgrading from iphoto 9 to 11, but I recently got a new Macbook air with Mountain Lion and iPhoto 11 pre-installed.
My main iPhoto library is on my iMac which is still running Snow Leopard and iPhoto 09.
I have a very large library with approx 30,000 pictures built up over 7 years.
Ideally I want to be able to use iPhoto on both computers and I thought moving the library to a external drive would be the solution.
So far I have copied my iphoto library onto a USB3 external drive and tried to use it with the new iPhoto. Obviously it says I must upgrade the library first. But I have seen so many reports of issues with the iPhoto 11, is it going to be worth the hassle to do this, or should I find a way to install iPhoto 9 on my new Macbook instead?
I have played around with the iPhoto 11 and quite like the full screen editing view, but stability and confidence in the library is paramount, and I don't want to go ahead if it is going to be unreliable and buggy. Have they fixed most of the bugs now?
Would you guys go ahead and upgrade, continue with 09, or consider moving to Lightroom or another more stable product?
thanks
David

OK, so I took the plunge and upgraded the database for the library I stored on the external drive, to use with my macbook.
The upgrade went smoothly, and very fast - much faster than expected as it took about an hour!
Now I am trying to verify that everything is A-OK before I buy iPhoto 11 on the iMac and start to use this external copy as the master.
I have found one issue so far, and could do with some advice. All the phtots and events seem to be there, however when I try and edit a photo, almost all photos (but not all, I would say about 75%) say "Image cannot be edited. This photo was previously edited with another application or with an early version of iPhoto. Duplicate this photo to edit it.".
Is this normal? Most of my photos were created in iphoto 9, some may have been edited in photoshop and resaved to iphoto, but all originated from an upload into iphoto originally.
Any ideas as to whether this can be solved or if I have to duplicate every single picture manually if I want to edit? That would be a pain!
thanks
David

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