IPhoto 5.0.4 Freezes/Loses Entered Names when Editing Pix

This bug has been annoying the heck out of me lately. After I take a bunch of pictures (100-300), I begin the arduous task of organizing, fine-tuning, naming and cropping them in iPhoto. Many times in the past month, iPhoto locks up and loses all the information I typed and forgets which photos I deleted since I last started it up. This is becoming quite annoying, and I have started to enter in the names of 20-40 photos at a time, then quitting and reopening iPhoto (but that's not an optimal solution).
A few notes:
I have rebuilt all the databases in iPhoto (startup and hold down the 'Option+Command' keys)
I have almost 8,000 photos in my library
The only add-on I'm using is Keyword Assistant (the latest version, which should be compatible with iPhoto 5.0.4)—I really hope this program is not the cause of my woes, because I absolutely hate having to go to my mouse to assign keywords to photos!
My next troubleshooting step is to remove Keyword Assistant, but I am wondering if anyone knows of any other solutions to this problem or if anyone else is even having this problem. It seems only to happen after I've entered in a name for a picture and clicked the next button (or pressed 'Command+right arrow') while in the 'Edit' mode.

Hi Jeff:
Haven't seen this particular problem come up before. Is the crashing occurring during the cropping and editing or while you're changing names?
What comes to mind first is to repair disk permissions with Disk Utility and then manually set the permissions on the iPhoto Library folder:
Setting Permissions for iPhoto Library Folder
1 - Select the iPhoto Library folder and type Command-I.
2 - When the Info window comes up go to the Ownership and Permissions section and make sure You have Read & Write permission and that the Owner and Group have Read & Write also. Others - Read Only.
3 - Then click on the "Apply to enclosed items..." button.
Also make sure you have plenty of free space on your HD.
There is a new version of Keyword Assistant out that fixed the earlier incompatibility with iPhoto 5. Be sure you have the latest version.
OT

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