Upgrading Panther to Tiger & iPhoto 4 to iPhoto 6

I did a complete bootalble carbon copy backup of my Mac HD to an External HD. Did a "erase and Install"(erase Mac HD, and clean install of Tiger). Installed iPhoto 6. BTW, I changed user names on the new install cuz my wife never uses the mac and I go tired of trying to maintain two user accounts while using Panther. New user name is Jerry. Old user name was Shari. I have admin. priveledges onto old Back up Ext. HD as well as new installed tiger on mac hd.
Everything has been going pretty well. Got he network and printers going. Reinstalled misc programs like Elements, and Canon Scanner, without problem. Imported iTunes music.
I am having trouble bringing the iPhoto 4 pictures from my external HD into the iPhoto 6 Mac HD. I tried iPhoto's "Import to Library" from the External to the internal HD, but just got a spinning gear and had to cancel. I tried dragging the iphoto 4 Library to the iPhoto 6 library, but the pictures don't show up in iphoto 6 and now i'm afraid I mucked things up in my pictures>iPhoto Library. There is another iPhoto below the iPhoto Library.
ie. pictures>iphoto library>iphoto library>(all my iphoto 4 picts from 2000 thru 2006 + albums, etc.)
I've read of holding down the option key while opening iphoto library folder below iPhoto library and it gives me the option of Create or choose library, but I really don't know if this is what I need. What I want is to basically restore my iPhoto 4 pictures on the External Drive to iPhoto 6 on my Mac HD. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
iMac FP 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   1.2 Gig Ram, External f/w Drive

Jerry:
To get the old library up and running on the new computer all you need to do is copy that iPhoto Library folder intact into the Pictures folder on your new computer. Then reset the ownership and permissions on that folder and its contents as follows:
Setting Permissions for iPhoto Library Folder
1 - Select the iPhoto Library folder and type Command-I.
2 - When the Info window comes up go to the Ownership and Permissions section and make sure You have Read & Write permission and that the Owner and Group have Read & Write also. Others - Read Only.
3 - Then click on the "Apply to enclosed items..." button.
Now when you launch iPhoto 6 it will tell you it needs to update the library. Go ahead and do so. That should give you a V6 library.
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