Another slow iphoto problem. Stats inside.

OK folks, I have to join in now. iPhoto 09, 8.0.2 (update didn't do anything speed-wise), MBP 2.2 4GB RAM, plenty of HD space. My user is FileVaulted.
62,600 picts, 850 movies, 128GB DB.
Yes, it's excessively big. I've rebuilt, re thumbnailed, etc (I've selected all the checkboxes except the last one, when you start up iPhoto holding the option key)
The big library worked fine in '08.
Startup time: 3 minutes
Go from Event view to an event: 1:15 min
Go from event back to Event view: 1:20 min
It begins to speed up some after this, but she's still ugly.
As you can see, it's not usable.
I'm going to vacuum the DB next, but man, if something were to go wrong and I lost photos, It'd be hard for me to tell. I'll do a backup of course, but the problem with that is that FileVault backs up all at once, so I can't do another backup until I'm satisfied I didn't lose anything.)
One thing that's interesting- firing up iPhoto 09 only seems to use one processor when it starts- that might just be old code, but I thought it'd use both. (one proc is at 100%, the other is at 8%.)
I don't see anything spouted out in Console either...
-Anyone else find FileVault to be a culprit?
-iPhoto only uses one processor when booting?
-I'm always looking for pros/cons on vacuuming the DB.
Thanks guys-

Firevault has to encode files on the fly both as saving and reading. That definitely will slow down many operations like iPhoto and iDVD. Personally I won't use FV as there have been issues with having to have the same volume of free space as in the FV in order to recover and other functions. The best protection is run in a non administrative user account and use a very good password for access.
Here's a trick that was posted on MacOSXHints regarding speeding up iPhoto 09:
Speed up iPhoto '09 by vacuuming its databasesMon, Mar 2 2009 at 7:30AM PST • Submitted by wjv
My iPhoto '08 used to start in seconds despite the 30,000+ photos I kept in it. But after I installed iLife '09 and upgraded my iPhoto library, iPhoto '09 would hang for several minutes with the dreaded beach ball on startup. Even worse, though was that opening any event would trigger another hang of a minute or more, as would viewing a photo full-screen. (Once these initial hangs were over and done with, the app would work normally.)
Inside the iPhoto Library Package, there are four SQLite databases (face_blob.db, face.db, iPhotoAux.db and iPhotoMain.db). I found that by vacuuming all four of these databases, I restored iPhoto '09's performance back to something on par with its predecessor.
Open Terminal and cd into your iPhoto Library by typing: cd ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library
NOTE: or you can type cd and a space and then drag your library into the Terminal window.
Once there, execute the following command:
for dbase in *.db; do sqlite3 $dbase "vacuum;"; done
I've run it and it seems to work. My library wasn't large so didn't notice a big improvement but there was some. Others have reported big improvements.

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