AOL stopped working in iPhoto

I have a friend who has been using AOL to mail photos from iPhoto. In the last few days, it's reverted to Mail. He went to Preferences to change it back to AOL and found everything grayed out except Mail. He has reinstalled AOL, but it did no good. (He's on a Powerbook G4, I believe.Titanium, if I remember right.) I'm afraid I don't have the versions he's using, but I suspect he recently upgraded to the latest iPhoto.
I've seen where tossing out Entourage and AOL helped bring Mail back. I'm hesitant to have him toss Mail, since he may use it one day, but I suppose he can. So my question is, would deleting Mail and tossing the iPhoto preference file do the trick? Does anyone know the specific name for the iPhoto preferences file?
Thanks in advance!
Lis

first have him check the name of the AOL application. If it is AOL have him change it to America Online.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93949

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Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
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Offered solution doesn't work:
Shut down and restart your computer, and then open iPhoto again. If the problem persists, try rebuilding your photo library. To do this, quit iPhoto, and then reopen it while keeping the Option and Command keys pressed. You can also try restoring your photo library from a backup.
I have already copied my photographs to the a library manager but when I tried to reuse iphoto and import the photos back into iphoto, it would not let me.
I can't download photographs from my iphone or my digital camera.
Any ideas on how I can solve this problem?
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I have already copied my photographs to the a library manager but when I tried to reuse iphoto and import the photos back into iphoto, it would not let me.
You can't "copy" your photos to the "library manager", there is just no way to any such thing.
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Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
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