Black and white photos do not preview in "organize"

The preview of all grayscale images shows as a black window in the organize mode. They appear fine in edit mode. How do I get the preview to appear in the main library and the album?
I saw a closely related topic but I am having a slightly different issue and I do not have an applescript utlility on this os version. ???
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Dual G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Dual G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

r2art:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Try the following: download and run BatChmod on the Data folder in the iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, substituting your account name for mine. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.

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