IPhoto quits unexpectedly and does not allow me to update

When I open iPhoto, I am prompted to upgrade: "The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto." Before I even have the opportunity to click Upgrade, the application quits: "The application iPhoto quit unexpectedly." When I click Relaunch, I receive the upgrade message again and the program quits again.
I have already repaired the permissions using Disk Utility and deleted the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from my Preferences folder per the instructions I found to resolve this problem on another site, but that did nothing.
Thanks for your help.

Someone else found that this works
Launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and create a new library - then launch iPhoto again while depressing the option (alt) key and switch back to your original library - this has apparently worked for some people
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