Are you telling us you don't have a backup of your stuff?
I've been putting off purchasing iPhoto '11 to update from '09 because of problems the early updaters experienced with the library disappearing, etc. So, now with numerous updates to iPhoto '11 is it relatively safe to assume that installation of update iPhoto v. 9.1.2 would be trouble free?

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