Don't even have the choice to rebuild library

I installed iLife 09 and with that, iPhoto. It was fine for a few days. Then, on Feb 8, after 6 days, when trying to import photos from a camera, the beach ball appeared and stayed there. I had to force quit. Tried another time. Same thing. I am using Time Machine so I have backup of everything. That was verified.
Tried many things. Repairing permissions, re-installing iPhoto, etc . No matter what I do, iPhoto does not function as supposed to and as I expect it would.
As a solution, I found that maybe, I should rebuild the iPhoto Library.
But I can't even do that, because, I am not given the choice to: the dialog does not even give me the choice. It is only possible to say cancel!!!!
Then what??
En français, on dit j'en perds mon latin!
So can anyone help me to get iPhoto 09 working with my library.
Pierre R.

This may be relevant. I had a similar problem, where a very simple import caused endless beachball.
When I tried to rebuild the library, it informed me that two files were outstanding, that needed to be imported.
That operation also caused the spinning ball.
Later I looked in the "pictures" folder and found the recovered files.
They were some kind of damaged .AVI file from a still camera.
Trying to see them with Quicklook also stopped everything.
Once I found all instances of these files and deleted them everything started to work again.
I hope this helps.
Jim

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