I have been following Michael Schmidt's problems with interest as I have happily moved stuff around four external Firewire drives with no hassles. In any case, I strongly recommend the use of the freeware iPhoto Library Manger which allows you to have multiple libraries, great when your collection gets large, and you can locate them anywhere at all, rather than in the Pictures folder only.
Severin Crisp
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