Apple Mail won't save to iPhoto

On snowLeopard, with a 'last year's' version of iPhoto...Mail will not send photo to iPhoto.
I have the button to send to iPhoto, and iPhoto dock icon does a little bounce, but picture doesn't show up in iPhoto.
Even from QuickLook, I can press that "Send to iphoto"...but the picture never appears in iPhoto.
We did repair permissions.
This OSX was recently clean install.
User was migrated from iBook g4 (Tiger, I think).
Help?
Thanks,
rickvv

Greetings Rick,
Questions:
What version of iPhoto are you running?
Do you have a backup of your iPhoto Library?
When was the last time you did this process and it worked and what has changed between then and now?
As a test:
Quit iPhoto
Hold down the option key and launch iPhoto
Click to create a new test iPhoto Library
Quit iPhoto
Open Mail and attempt to save and image to the new test iPhoto Library
Cheers.

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