Sharing photos across network isn't working

I've got an eMac with all my photos stored on it in the kitchen, centrally located for the family to access. It's got around 1200 photos, running iPhoto 6 on 10.4.7.
On my Mac Mini in the office, I'd like to be able to access those photos via the Shared feature. I've got it set up properly, but for whatever reason, the photos never "appear" in iPhoto on the mini.
When I click on the shared library, it shows the proper count at the bottom of the app, and a bunch of square boxes with dotted borders appear. If I leave it alone to think for a while, after about 5 minutes, it automatically flips back to my local library in iPhoto. Clicking back to the shared library shows no progress.
How can I get these photos to show up?

Jacob:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
a bunch of square boxes with dotted borders appear.
That condition is typical when you don't have the correct access to the thumbnail files. So the place to start looking are the permissions for that iPhoto Library folder and its contents. I've not done any sharing so can't carry this much further. If you don't get a solution to your problem look at Tutorial #4 as a possible solution. I'm sure it would work over the network as all you'll need on the source files is read access. Just a thought.
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