Iphoto 6 Thumbnail Viewing/Indexing Problem

i recently upgraded to iphoto 6.0.5 and my photos get out of order within the albums when i use the blue scroll bar to go up and down through my different albums. Pictures from different albums appear out of order. when i stop the scroll bar and/or click off it, the pictures in view change right in front of me and go to what they should be, but its a HUGE pain for maneuvering and just not accurate. Every time i move the pix up and down, they completely change when i stop so u never know what is really in that location and in that album
Originally on the update, it said i needed to do some kind of "organizing my thumbnail cache" which I think i did (or maybe it stopped halfway through) but I cant find ANYTHING else about this in the help section or online. I tried correcting file permissions on my system and restarting, but iphot is basically really screwed up from a organizing and indexing standpoint. Any ideas?

keylowd
Try the following: hold down the apple and option keys and launch iPhoto. This will give you a dialogue box where you can rebuild the database. Use the first three options. It may take a while, depending on the size of your library.
If that doesn't work try deleting the iPhoto Cache from Home/Library/Caches - just trash it, and restart the machine. This will force iPhoto to rebuild the cache. Again, this may take a some time and will make the first launch of iPhoto slower after.
Regards
TD

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