Black Photos in Photo Stream

Hi Guys,
Some photos shot on my iPhone 4s turn up black on iPhoto on my Mac. This affects about 30 percent of pictures and is that way since a few month. Attached a Screenshot. I´ve updated everything recently but it´s the same - Black photos.
Do you´ve got any idea how to fix it? I´ve tried a number of things, like copying the black photos somewhere else and duplicating them to see if it´s just a permission problem. But they stay black.
On the iPhone the black photos appear perfectly fine. They also can be imported manually via cable.
Cheers,
Thomas
Setup:
OSX 10.7.3
iPhoto 9.2.3
iOS 5.1

I seem to have eliminated the problem, at least for now, by rebuilding the library. So, if you want to try it yourself, this is the process I followed:
Check for iPhoto updates. If there is an update, download and install the update, then launch iPhoto in case it needs to update your library to the new version.
Quit iPhoto.
If you use Time Machine, have it back up your iPhoto library.
Make a copy of your iPhoto Library file. On my system it is located in /Users/[MyUserName]/Pictures. I just copied it to an external USB drive.
Rebuild your iPhoto library by following the instructions in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638. I only had to use the first rebuild option, "Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database".
Please "like" this if it helps.

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