Upgrading iphoto 2 on a G3 ibook

My daughter has an old ibook, G3 processor, with iphoto 2 on it. She wants to upgrade to iphoto 6 but it needs a G4 processor. There's one site in the US who'll sell her an OEM DVD of iLife 5 but though the DVD costs only $40 the freight is $76. Seventy-six dollars to mail a DVD! I can't find anywhere else to buy iphoto 5. Naturally it's been supplanted on the shelves by iphoto 6. It seems massively unfair that a G3 owner has been left stranded in this way. Has anybody any suggestions as to what she can do, apart from buying a new computer?

Peter:
What is the processor speed of her G3 and does she have a superdrive?
iPhoto 6 has been successfull installed and run on G3s before. The caveat is that some of the advanced editing capabilities will not work due to the processor. But these are the advanced exposure, temperature, etc. features. Another caveat is if there's no superdrive she will have to connect her computer to a G4 that has a superdrive, setting the G3 into Target Mode and installing from the G4 computer. If she has a reasonable fast CPU, around 700 MHz, she should be able to run OK. Many have reported doing so.
One caveat to going this route is that if she upgrades to another computer, not a new one, she can remove iPhoto from the G3 and use the iLife Disks to install on the newer computer. If it were to be a new one then it would include iLife 06.
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