Snow leopard back to leopard, how to open iPhoto libary

I work as a system admin, normally with windows.
but one of the users on the network, has a mac (ok, personal system, but if I don't have anything else to do...)
but he asked something, and I don't know, but I also want to know.
the question?
how do you open an iPhoto Library made in iPhoto under Snow Leopard, while using Leopard.
it now only sais that the library was made with a newer version of iPhoto, but he can open the images, but they don't want to go back into iPhoto
(he had to downgrade since pro tool doesn't work on snow leopard yet)

This isn't a Leopard/Snow Leopard problem.
iPhoto is an application that's part of the iLife software suite (it's a separate product, but a copy is bundled with and pre-installed on Macs). Newer versions of iLife can read libraries from previous versions, but not necessarily the other way around. If you use a newer version of iPhoto, it will ask you if you want to convert to the new library format. If you say yes, the format is changed.
Once the format is changed, the library cannot be used with an older version of iPhoto.
The user can do any one of a number of things. The easiest solution is simply to get a current version of iLife and install it and use the current version of iPhoto. iLife '09 works fine on both Leopard and Snow Leopard.
The user can also go to the folder where the photos are stored and reimport them into his older version of iPhoto. Go to the user's Pictures folder, and find the folder labelled 'iPhoto Library'. Change the name to something snappy like 'old iPhoto Library' and then open it. The original images are found in the sub-folder named 'Originals'. You can simply select everything in that sub-folder and drag it onto the iPhoto application icon and iPhoto will start and import all the pictures. You lose the metadata iPhoto had associated with the photos, but you do have the photos back in the older version of iPhoto.
I've never tried it, but you may even be able to get back some of the metadata if you are clever at programming. iPhoto libraries are just 3 things: image files, some Objective-C object dumps, and XML. The images and XML are simple enough to deal with, you just need to figure out how to make sense of the binary object files (Objective-C's answer to Java's POJO data files).

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