Help  High Resolution Thumbnails - Taking forever!!

I have 1700 photos in my iPhoto libarry.  When I open the app today, I was asked if I wanted to generate high resolution thumbnails.  (I had been asked before but clicked - Ask Later).  Today, with no much happening, I said yes.
It's been almost 4 hours - and the status bar has not even moved 1/2".
I've searched the data base and have seen that it can take some time - especially for poeple with large libraries.  But 1700 photos and 4 hours.  That just does not seem right.
Any ideas?  Just have patience?  Or is there a problem?
Tim

Hi Tim,
What ultimately happened?  I have a brand new MBPr and roughly 4,000 photos... A few hours here and my progress bar is "stuck" on 95+%...
Keith

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