Upgrade to iPhoto 6.0 problem - fails to upgrade/import existing photos

I have just upgraded my PowerBook G4 with OS X Tiger 10.4.3 and also purchased and upgraded to iLife 06 immediately after that. I already had a few thousand photos on my mac in my previous version of iPhoto. On upgrading I have tried repeatedly to launch the new iPhoto 6.0 without success. A message pops up saying "The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto". When I click "Upgrade" the mac is busy for over 30 minutes each time. At the end of that process it displays the following error message and then quits iPhoto (I have never actually got iPhoto 6.0 to open) - the error message is "The path of the item that failed is “/Users/markhudson/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Albums/[album name]"”. I have probably 25 different albums from my previous iPhoto version which used to work fine!
In trying to solve the problem I have tried deleting the 'problem' album by dragging it to the trash icon, but each time I retry thereafter it is just another album which becomes the problem. I have also made sure on the iPhoto application folder permissions section that the entity I log in to my mac (which is also the administrator) has read and write privileges. I have two other entities set up to use the same mac. It is a standalone mac with no network.
I was really looking forward to all the great new features which I read about on iPhoto 6.0 and am really disappointed that it is not working following what should be a simple upgrade process.
Reading the other postings on this discussion forum there do seem to be numerous problems with this upgrading/importing part of iPhoto 6.0. I was unable to find anything in the other postings/answers to address my specific problem as described above and would be extremely grateful for help and advice with this problem. I just want it to work again.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Powerbook G4 15" Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Mark:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Do you still have a copy of your V5 iPhoto Library folder? If so you might try the following.
1 - Download and run BatChmod on the V4 iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, substituting your account name for mine. Then try launching iPhoto with the Option key depressed and select that new V5 library folder to open. See if that will get you over the "bad" albums.
Did you have any unique characters in the album names, i.e. umlauts, etc.
One a different note: there's a way to share the photos so that all of the users can have their own library, do their own edits and only have one set of original files. That is to use iPhoto in it's "alias" mode which only imports alias files for each photo into the library and leaves the original files untouched. It provides more flexibility for all users to edit photos, create slideshow and books, etc. independently of the other users. On a single Mac you would put the source files in folders inside the Shared folder. Then each user creates an alias library and imports the photos from Shared folder. Any new photos should be added to a new folder in the Shared folder so that users will know which are new. If that sounds like it might work for you look at these Tutorials. #1 will assist you to recover the keywords from your current library prior to converting over to an alias based library. Good luck.

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