Trouble getting images into iPhoto 6

I'm seeing some similar problems here, but not quite this one. I just upgraded from my old Powerbook to the MacBook Pro. My photos all seem to be in the right place (users/(my name)/pictures/iPhoto Library), but when I try to open iPhoto, I get a message saying "The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto."
So I hit "Upgrade", and I get a progress bar that says "Updating Photo Library." That completes, and the message says, "491 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library folder that are not a part of this photo library. Would you like to import them?"
I've tried both "No" and "Yes". Either way, in just a couple of seconds I get another dialog saying "33 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library folder that were not imported. Would you like to import them?"
Again, I've tried both "No" and "Yes". Either way, the dialog goes away, and I see a "Loading photos" message in the iPhoto screen. I have tried just letting this run, but no matter how long it goes, nothing happens, it just keeps saying the same thing with the spinning icon (I've let it run in the background for over a day).
I've also tried rebuilding the photo library, as described on the support pages, but that didn't help.
Can anyone help?

I ended up doing a manual rebuild. There must have indeed been a file or folder corruption or something. I will rebuild the albums, and it looks like everything will be fine. Thanks.

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