unable to access jaunty eclipse projects

Binary package hint: eclipse

I have a project that I was working on with eclipse under jaunty kubuntu.

Now that I've "upgraded" to karmic, I can't find any way to access the project. The "Open Project" menu option is greyed out; the import feature doesn't seem to do anything useful [and I'm not even sure that "import" is the right thing to do anyway].

No doubt there is a way to access the project, but it is horribly, horribly non-obvious what this way might be.

(Naïvely, I expected that the project would simply open in the new version of eclipse, à la MS Dev Studio; since karmic's eclipse doesn't do that, users need clear instructions as to how to get to their old projects.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 10 14:16:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmci vmmon fglrx
Package: eclipse (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: eclipse
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64