Transferring iPhoto collection from eMac to new iMac

I'm stumped here. I tried burning CDR back-ups of my iPhoto collection (with Tiger installed) on the old eMac and then inserting the CDRs into the new iMac which has Leopard installed. That doesn't seem to work. Many of the photos are only a few kbs in size. Yet some are around 400 kbs too.
There must be an easy, efficient way to transfer photos. After all, these are Macs we're talking about!!
Any ideas? Thanks from Canada.

I actually did copy iPhoto from the eMac to a portable HD. Still no luck. However what I did was drag the desktop iPhoto icon to the portable HD. It took awhile to transfer but it still doesn't seem to work. Maybe just dragging the iPhoto icon isn't the right way.
I find it odd that even when I burned iPhoto to a CDR from my eMac (this was when it was able to hold my photos, now there's way too many), it still wouldn't transfer to the new iMac's iPhoto. Again, I must be missing something fundamental here. I'm just so used to dragging and copying.

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