Spotlight not searching recent iPhoto titles

I upgraded to iphoto 06 and imported some photos. I gave them all their own appropriate names in the title bar. Closed iphoto. No problem. Opened iphoto again, it crashed right away. And again right away.
Opened iphoto later and imported some more photos. Gave them names too.
Now, spotlight won't find the most recent entries, post crash. It will find everything else ok.
I've tried using spotlightindexer on my iphoto folder to no avail.
What else should I try?
(I've the read the thread a couple posts down, but it doesn't seem particularly relevant, and now its discussion is going off in a separate direction)

I scraped together a solution for myself from the myriad of options that were presented here on the forums.
After trying all the reindexing and rebuilding options (including reupgrading from v5), I burned my library to a DVD, completely erased the original library, then reimported.
I lost albums, but whatever; I really needed to do some housecleaning anyway!
Still, things weren't perfect. However, NOW i was able to use the "apply keyword" trick to make things happen.
I had my library split on two discs. After I imported the second disc, those files weren't being indexed either. Again, applying a keyword, quitting iphoto, opening iphoto, removing the keyword, quitting, then searching worked. I don't know that all that quitting is necessary, but I wasn't going to mess with something that was working. Hopefully this can help someone else out too!

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