All photos suddenly appear "black" within their frames. Help!

Between importing photos from my camera and quitting, then reopening the program again a few days later, my photos all now suddenly appear completely black (the same color as the window's background). In every photo folder I have, the correct number of photos appear. They are even oriented the way they would be, except, of course, that the contents of each photo (highlighted in blue, or with the usual thin white frame) is blank. Slideshows show blanks (black screen) with music playing as usual. The iPhoto library still contains the photos, with thumbnails, and I can open the files and view the photos in the iPhoto library using Preview.
Why can't I see the photos within the program itself???

Lude:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Are you referring to the thumbnails or the full sized image in the Edit window?
It's an issue in iPhoto 6 that some fixed by updating to 10.4.6 using the COMBO updater followed by a repair of disk permissions with Disk Utility.

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