Albums disappear in iPhoto 5.0.4

I'm running 10.4.2 & iPhoto 5.0.4
Today, when I opened up iPhoto all my pictures were there, but no albums. Does anyone have any ideas how I might get them back?
Thanks,
Ben

Hi Ben,
I have read of others having this happen to them. Unfortunately, I have no read of any solutions. The album information is stored in the iPhoto.db file (I think).
this file must have got corrupted somehow.
all I can offer is to redo the albums and hope it doesn't happen again. I wish I could tell you more.
You can try rebuilding the library, but I don't think that will help.
If you can, work on a duplicate of the iPhoto Library.
To rebuild, hold down the command and Option keys while launching iPhoto and choose all the options except the "orphaned photos" one.

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